Minorities need COVID vaccine, Huntsville faith leaders say as they get shots
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Oscar Montgomery, pastor at Union Hill Primitive Baptist Church in Huntsville, gets the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 27, 2021. (Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com)
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Updated 10:45 p.m.: The city of Huntsville, in a comment on its Facebook post about the event, defended criticism for the community leaders who received the shots without meeting criteria for those currently eligible under Alabama Department of Public Health guidelines.
“Today’s media event was a collaboration between the Department of Public Health and the Huntsville-area COVID-19 Leadership Team to demonstrate to the public, and particularly our minority community, that the vaccine is safe,” the city’s comment said in part. “The team waited until after healthcare and frontline personnel were vaccinated and the state was well into phase 1B for essential workers b