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Local experts hope to bridge racial trust gap in vaccine rollout Times-News Local and national experts are touting the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine in the hopes of mitigating what they describe as mistrust among certain demographics, especially Blacks.  As authorities begin rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine to communities across the country, local experts are finding that individuals within certain communities, particularly Black Americans, have expressed misgivings about the government-supplied treatment. Experts fear this could become a significant obstacle to the minimal amounts of vaccination required to affect herd immunity.  Their fears are already playing out in states that include demographic information in their vaccination datasets. North Carolina is among the top five states with a large disparity between the vaccination rates of Black and white residents. According to the dataset from the initial rollout, African Americans had a vaccination rate of 1.3% relative

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