'Protect our community.' How Black leaders are tackling hesitancy over COVID vaccine
Aaron Sánchez-Guerra and Brian Murphy, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 15—DURHAM — The day that Duke University Hospital received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine last month, Faye Williams sat down, rolled up her left sleeve and made history.
Williams, a nurse at Duke clinics screening people for the virus, was the first frontline worker and the first Black person to receive the vaccine in the Triangle region.
A month and her second vaccine dose later, Williams spoke on a COVID-19 vaccine information panel held last weekend at St. Joseph's AME Church in Durham's historically Black neighborhood of Hayti to promote the vaccine to skeptical African Americans.