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Charles Blow: How Black people learned not to trust government and medical systems Durango, Colorado Currently Sat 45% chance of precipitation 45% chance of precipitation 5% chance of precipitation 2% chance of precipitation Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 5:33 AM Charles Blow Charles Blow Escuchar en Español: Loading the Español audio player... It would appear that the people in American hit hardest by COVID-19 – Black people – are also the group most leery about the prospects of a vaccine. As a Pew Research report published last week p...

My patients' fears about the vaccine are borne from the country's shameful medical history, writes Dr. Pamela Adelstein.

While she hasn't been told whether she got the actual vaccine during the trial, she had a bit of swelling in her arm after the booster shot — which makes her believe she did. That's helped when patients ask her what to expect. "Some of the side effects were a little bit more robust the second time around, so I try and tell them exactly what I went through," she explained. It may take months for the general public to get inoculated with new vaccines once they're approved. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to quickly clear Pfizer's vaccine for emergency use after an advisory panel ...

By Hans Bader | December 10, 2020 | 3:46pm EST Featured is the Department of Veterans Affairs seal. (Photo credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images) The Department of Veterans Affairs is going to give priority to black and Hispanic veterans over white and Asian veterans when administering the vaccine for COVID-19. This racial preference is unconstitutional. The VA is doing this because it thinks blacks and Hispanics are at greater risk. But these minorities are not inherently at greater risk of contracting the virus. There is nothing special about thei...

It would appear that the people in American hit hardest by COVID-19 — Black people — are also the group most leery about the prospects of a vaccine. As a Pew Research report published last week pointed out: “Black Americans are especially likely to say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died as a result of having the coronavirus: 71% say this, compared with smaller shares of Hispanic (61%), White (49%) and Asian-American (48 %) adults.” But that same report contained the following: “Black Americans continue to stand out as less inclined to get vaccinated t...