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Black And Asian Medics Urge Britain s Minority Communities: Get The COVID Jab
NHS workers tell HuffPost UK what it was like to get vaccinated – and why people from BAME communities should too.
By Léonie Chao-Fong
Dr Abdul Zubairu and nurse May Parsons are among the NHS staff who have received both doses of the Covid-19 Pfizer\BioNTech vaccine.
It was not until she turned up at work on the morning of December 9 that May Parsons realised she was going to receive the first dose of her Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine – just a day after she had administered the world’s first to 90-year-old Margaret Keenan.
How Croydon became a hotbed for vaccine misinformation
Misinformation on social media is turning BAME groups against the vaccine. Community leaders say they expect the problem to get worse
6 February 2021 • 1:49pm
When a TikTok user filmed himself shouting “liar” at England’s chief medical officer in a London food market this week, the video gave a glimpse of the fevered Covid conspiracies spreading among young people on social media.
Particularly in diverse parts of the capital, researchers are raising the alarm about online misinformation which is fuelling intense government mistrust and persuading Black and Asian minority ethnic (BAME) communities, already disproportionately affected by the virus, to shun the vaccine.