Communities of color have every right to be nervous, Jenkins said.
There is a long legacy of systemic racism in health care and medicine notably the Tuskegee Experiment, in which researchers tracked the progression of syphilis over several decades in hundreds of Black men by not treating them as they died or suffered severe health issues.
But the Covid-19 vaccine is different, Jenkins said, noting that thousands of Black people had been involved in clinical trials. This is not an American experiment on Black people, Jenkins said. This is a worldwide pandemic with a worldwide vaccine as a solution to the thousands of deaths.
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With few volunteers for vaccine, hospital CEO takes ‘one for the team
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
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Administrators at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., were thrilled to be among the city s first hospitals to get a COVID-19 vaccine, but they knew it could be a tough sell to get staffers to take the shot.
They were right.
The hospital, located on the campus of one the nation s oldest historically Black colleges, received 725 doses of the vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech on Dec. 14 and expects 1,000 more vaccine doses this week to immunize its workers.
Yet, as of Friday afternoon, about 600 employees had signed up for the shots, touted as about 95% effective in preventing the deadly disease. Howard has about 1,900 employees, not counting hundreds of independent contractors it also hoped to vaccinate.
Hundreds of thousands of doses of virus vaccine headed to D.C, Maryland, Virginia this week
Patricia Sullivan, Julie Zauzmer and Lola Fadulu, The Washington Post
Dec. 21, 2020
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Roy Dunlap receives the coronavirus vaccine at Howard University Hospital in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020.Washington Post photo by Michael Robinson Chavez
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of thousands of doses of the coronavirus vaccines are beginning to come into the greater Washington area as the number of infections and deaths continue to build.
The District of Columbia expects to receive more than 30,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine this week, which will substantially increase the city s ability to vaccinate front-line workers.