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Mistrust, disinformation on Covid vaccine among Latinos worries Hispanic doctors Carmen Sesin © Provided by NBC News MIAMI As vaccinations against the coronavirus begin to roll out across the country, Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo says he s been getting many questions from his predominantly Latino patients, including whether the vaccine contains the virus and whether there are side effects to taking it. “People are not sure what’s in the vaccines. They want to know,” said Carrasquillo, the chief of general internal medicine at the University of Miami and one of the principal investigators for the Janssen vaccine trial. Covid-19 has hit U.S. Latinos disproportionately hard in many areas of the U.S., making vaccinations a crucial public health mission. But doctors like Carrasquillo are hearing skepticism about the vaccines because of the lack of reliable information, especially in Spanish, coupled with disinformation that has been circulating.

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