The vaccination question: Forum offers perspectives from African American, Latino communities
In this undated photo provided by Johnson & Johnson in September 2020, a woman receives an injection during testing for the Janssen Pharmaceutical-Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Johnson & Johnson via AP
Published: 3/7/2021 11:41:21 AM
The message that landed in the chat box cut to the crux of an online forum Friday afternoon on perspectives about the COVID-19 vaccine within African American and Latino communities.
“Many of my circle of friends/family from the Latino and African American community will not be taking the vaccine,” one attendee wrote. “I understand their concerns . but hope that with conversations and education, they would have more trust.”
Panel to offer personal, professional COVID-19 vaccine perspectives among Blacks, Latinos
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
Dr. Miguel Rodriguez is among the participants on a March 5 virtual panel offering personal and professional perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination among blacks and Latinos. A Holyoke Medical Center pulmonologist, he has cared for those with symptoms of coronavirus disease since the start of the pandemic in early 2019.
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Panelists who include physicians as well as public health and social services experts from Latino and Black backgrounds will discuss the COVD-19 vaccine during a virtual presentation Friday, March 5, noon to 1 p.m.
The Children’s Study Home, in partnership with the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts, is hosting the event that is viewed as an opportunity for people of color in particular to ask questions as cumulative national data shows them to have higher rates of hospitalization from COVID-19 tha