All hail! N.J. native Queen Latifah comes back to Newark to get COVID vaccine.
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
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While the rest of the world hangs off the words of a 94-year-old royal with a penchant for showy hats, in Newark, there’s only one Queen who matters.
That would be Queen Latifah, who was born in Newark and grew up in nearby East Orange. The actress-rapper-extraordinaire volunteered Tuesday to receive her COVID-19 vaccination as part of a public information campaign.
“You hear a lot of things out there in the media, and they are very concerning and very frightening and very scary but being in a hospital on a ventilator is much more frightening than what’s going to happen getting a shot in the arm that is here to prepare our bodies to fight this thing,” Latifah said in the Essex County College gymnasium, before receiving her first dose of the shot.