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Dr. James A. Thompson is one of many Black physicians who have taken up the mantle of educating communities of color about the new COVID-19 vaccines.
Thompson spoke Sunday evening as the featured guest in a virtual COVID-19 vaccine town hall, hosted by the Bloomington-Normal branch of the NAACP and Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church in Bloomington.
Thompson specializes in allergies and immunology, and currently practices in the south Chicago suburbs. He responded to dozens of questions submitted online, including the following:
How does the COVID-19 vaccine work?
Both the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and the upcoming Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines essentially work the same way, Thompson said: by telling a human cell to manufacture a “spike protein” that the immune system will recognize and fight should the body become infected with COVID-19.