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Fighting distrust among Black people in Syracuse over Covid vaccine: ‘Be an example’ Syracuse.com 2/22/2021 Patrick Lohmann, syracuse.com © N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com/N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com/syracuse.com/TNS Onondaga County workers administer coronavirus vaccinations at the Boys & Girls Club of Syracuse Thursday, February 18, 2021. SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Juanita Nelson beamed as she stepped out of the People’s AME Zion church, having just received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. “I didn’t even feel it,” Nelson, a Black woman in her 80s, said of the needle entering her arm. She and others interviewed at the church last week expressed relief, a sense of finally feeling protected against a virus that has killed many of their peers.

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