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Unger: Hello, this is the American Medical Association s COVID-19 Update. Today we re talking with Dr. Asif Ishaque, president of the Professional Medical Corporation, or PMC, in Flint, Michigan about vaccine hesitancy in his community and addressing historical distrust. I m Todd Unger, AMA s chief experience officer in Chicago. Dr. Ishaque, when people hear Flint, Michigan, I think a lot of people still think of the water crisis that plagued the community back in 2014. Flint residents are still feeling effects of that public health crisis today, and still a lot of people strongly distrust local and state officials, and won t even drink the tap water, even though it s now been tested and deemed safe. Can you give us a little bit of background on how people lost that trust and why it s been so difficult to get it back?