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6 Feb 2021 The Associated Press | By MARY LANDERS, Savannah Morning News
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) Black Americans are more hesitant than whites to take the COVID vaccine. Reasons for that hit close to home in Savannah, and include a classified military operation in the 1950s that dropped hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes mosquitoes that many believe were infected with disease on Carver Village.
“They didn’t tell anybody, and it happened,” said Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Ellis. “And so that leaves some apprehension, especially when you have residents of that area who’ve been there since the ’50s. And so my job as neighborhood president, and also as chairman of the County Commission, is to kind of calm the storm down to let them know that this vaccination is not like that.”
The reasons for that hit close to home in Savannah, Georgia, where a classified military operation in the 1950s dropped hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes – mosquitoes that many believe were infected with disease – on Carver Village. They didn t tell anybody, and it happened, said Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Ellis. And so that leaves some apprehension, especially when you have residents of that area who ve been there since the 50s. And so my job as neighborhood president, and also as chairman of the County Commission, is to kind of calm the storm down to let them know that this vaccination is not like that.
Savannah Morning News
Black Americans are more hesitant than whites to take the COVID vaccine. Reasons for that hit close to home in Savannah, and include a classified military operation in the 1950s that dropped hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes mosquitoes that many believe were infected with disease on Carver Village. They didn t tell anybody, and it happened, said Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Ellis. And so that leaves some apprehension, especially when you have residents of that area who ve been there since the 50s. And so my job as neighborhood president, and also as chairman of the County Commission, is to kind of calm the storm down to let them know that this vaccination is not like that.
The Pentagon was Experimenting with ‘Dirty’ Nuclear Bombs
A device designed to spew radioactive material rather than set off a massive atomic explosion has long captured the public imagination as a potential terrorist weapon.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The Pentagon seems to have quickly passed over the radiological weapons for increasingly powerful nuclear bombs. By the 1960s, American and foreign scientists had discovered how to produce similar “enhanced radiation” effects with small hydrogen bombs, more commonly known as neutron bombs.
From television to Hollywood blockbusters, the “dirty bomb” – a device designed to spew radioactive material rather than set off a massive atomic explosion – has captured the public imagination as a potential terrorist weapon. But the U.S. Army once tried to make it into a real weapon of war.