‘We Have An Opportunity’: Minority Groups Prioritized In New COVID-19 Vaccine Trial At UC Davis Health
CBS Sacramento
1/2/2021
Syndicated Local – CBS Sacramento
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A third vaccine is being tested in Northern California but UC Davis Health officials are putting out a special call for specific participants. They want minority groups hit hardest by COVID-19 to participate, including the Latino community, Native Americans and African Americans.
Virginia Hedrick, Executive Director for the Consortium for Urban Indian Health, has made it her mission to raise awareness about the COVID-19 impact on the Native American community since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, she’s finding hope with a new vaccine in the works called Norovax, as UC Davis Health wants to focus on Native Americans.