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Katherine Sabido Wicked Local As the state maintains control over the order in which residents can be vaccinated, Cambridge must find alternative ways to prioritize its Black and brown communities during vaccination rollout. Cambridge councilors adopted a policy order Feb. 3 that called on the city manager to create a plan, in partnership with the Cambridge Public Health Department (CPHD) and local affordable housing organizations, that will ensure “underrepresented” communities — including Black and brown communities — will be vaccinated in a timely and orderly manner.  As the cit...

Local Leaders Build COVID Vaccine Trust in Black and Latinx Communities Sho Hatakeyama I 9th Street Journal Durham residents exit Southern High School after receiving the COVID-19 shot at a vaccination site in late January. When Rev. Mark-Anthony Middleton looks into the eyes of some of his elderly Black parishioners, he sees a deep, historic hurt that leads them to question the coronavirus vaccine.  “Older folks still have the memory of Tuskegee,” Middleton, a Durham city council member, said, referencing the Tuskegee Study, a study on syphilis that withheld proper medical treat...

Behind the news Are barbers the secret weapon against vaccine hesitancy? Some African-Americans are reluctant to get the covid jab. Near Washington, DC, one man is trying to change people’s minds WhatsApp Covid-19 has left its mark on the Shop Spa barbers. Anti-bacterial wipes and paper towels have joined the bottles of unguents cluttering work stations. The chairs and sofa where customers normally wait have been stacked up and taped off, in accordance with coronavirus regulations. Barbers wear face masks, except when they’re ribbing each other – then they pull them down over their chin...

The legacy set forth by generations of medical mistreatment of Black Americans has casted an enormous shadow over their minds when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine.

How COVID-19 vaccines could be a starting point for addressing inequity and mending broken systems A Q&A with Monica Shoch-Spana and Alexandre White | March 4, 2021 Recovery from a disaster like the COVID-19 pandemic won’t be easy and cannot be summed up as a “one- or two-shot solution.” COVID-19 has laid bare brutal existing inequities in the U.S. that cleave along socioeconomic and racial/ethnic lines. True recovery will require mending broken systems and innovation to address generations-old inequity. Although they are not the entire solution, vaccines do offer a starting point. Comm...