University of Pennsylvania doctor brings transparency to COVID vaccine for Black community
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A doctor at the University of Pennsylvania is using her platform to raise awareness about inequities in health care and show the community the COVID-19 vaccine is safe.
"I'm excited, a little bit nervous," Dr. Florencia Greer-Polite said in her video blog as she was about to get her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
She was one of the first people at Penn Medicine to be vaccinated, but it was a shot she wasn't sure she would get.
"I will be honest, I was not originally gung-ho about getting the vaccine," said Polite, who's the Chief of the Generalist Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.