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African Americans and COVID-19: Part XXVII (Vaccine Hesitancy)

African Americans and COVID-19: Part XXVII (Vaccine Hesitancy)

Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy (Michigan Health, 2/3/2021)

https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/wellness-prevention/overcoming-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy

Black Americans Lag Behind Whites Behind Whites in Getting COVID Vaccine (Voice of America, 2/11/2021)

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/black-americans-lag-behind-whites-getting-covid-vaccine

FAMU opens community COVID vaccine center—no appointment needed for those 65+ (Tallahassee Democrat, 2/24/2021)

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2021/02/24/covid-famu-open-community-vaccine-center-5-big-bend-residents-leon-county-deaths-florida/4562135001/

Gov. Beshear and Lexington’s NAACP Chapter Team Up to Address Vaccination Hesitancy (WUKY, 2/24/2021)

https://www.wuky.org/post/gov-beshear-and-lexington-s-naacp-chapter-team-address-vaccination-hesitancy#stream/0

Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy in Lexington’s African-American Communities (Spectrum News 1 (Lexington, KY), 2/24/2021)

https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/lexington/news/2021/02/24/vaccine-hesitancy-in-lexington

Health leaders address vaccine hesitancy (WTOC 11 (Savannah, GA), 2/24/2021)

https://www.wtoc.com/2021/02/25/health-leaders-address-vaccine-hesitancy/

Black Americans struggle to get COVID-19 vaccine; history threatens to repeat (Missourian, 2/24/2021)

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/covid19/black-americans-struggle-to-get-covid-19-vaccine-history-threatens-to-repeat/article_aef99fac-400b-11eb-809f-83998288e04d.html

3 Tips to tackle COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Black patients (AMA, 2/24/2021)

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/3-tips-tackle-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-among-black-patients

‘It’s Up to You’: Ad campaign to encourage coronavirus vaccinations gets underway (The Washington Post, 2/25/2021)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/25/covid-vaccine-ad-council/

Virus Updates: Biden Marks 50 M Vaccine Shots; Harris Addresses Vaccine Hesitancy (NBC 10 Philadelphia, 2/25/2021)

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/coronavirus/virus-updates-california-is-first-state-to-top-50k-covid-deaths/2718592/

Some Black Alabamians apprehensive about COVID-19 vaccine (WTVY.com (Montgomery, Al), 2/25/2021)

https://www.wtvy.com/2021/02/25/some-black-alabamians-apprehensive-about-covid-19-vaccine/

A Hidden Front in Vaccine Hesitancy: The LGBTQ Community (US News and World Report, 2/25/2021)

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-02-25/vaccine-hesitancy-in-the-lgbtq-community-poses-potential-challenge

No, the Tuskegee Study is Not the Top Reason Some Black Americans Question the COVID-19 Vaccine (KQED (California), 2/25/2021)

https://www.kqed.org/news/11861810/no-the-tuskegee-study-is-not-the-top-reason-some-black-americans-question-the-covid-19-vaccine

Harris implores Black Americans to get Covid vaccines despite ‘righteous skepticism’ (NBC NEWS, 2/25/2021)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/harris-implores-black-americans-get-covid-vaccines-despite-righteous-skepticism-n1258833

Henry Highland Garnet Symposium unpacks vaccine hesitancy in African American community (MyEasternShoreMD, 2/27/2021)

https://www.myeasternshoremd.com/emergency_notice/henry-highland-garnet-symposium-unpacks-vaccine-hesitancy-in-african-american-community/article_d2b0ae01-bc5f-5e89-a975-507279f8ec83.html

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