WORCESTER While science was crucial to the creation of the COVID-19 vaccine, good old-fashioned trust is key to making the nationwide vaccination effort a success.
With this is mind, the UMass Medical School, in collaboration with the Worcester Department of Health and Human Services, sponsored a webinar Thursday addressing the hesitancy of people in the Latino community to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
The webinar, “Conversación Virtual Sobre las Vacunas del COVID-19 (which translates to “Virtual Conversation about COVID-19 Vaccines”) was presented in Spanish, with English interpretation available.
Worcester Commissioner of Health and Human Services Dr. Matilde “Mattie” Castiel, along with Dr. Pablo I. Hernandez, chief medical officer at the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, and Dr. Mireya A. Wessolossky, infectious diseases specialist at UMass Memorial Medical Center – Memorial Campus and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical