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They’re simply not true, said Dr. Nancy Bennett with the Finger Lakes COVID-19 Vaccine Taskforce.
Health care workers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY receive their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 14, 2020. CREDIT UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
“There’s no microchip,” Bennett said. “It will not have any impact on your DNA and yourself.”
Such theories are nothing new. Anti-vaccine campaigns and organizations have been around for years.
According to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, five such organizations recently received more than $850,000 in federal Paycheck Protection Program funds from the former Trump administration.
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Becky Timmons gets her first dose of a vaccine trial for the novel coronavirus at Rochester General Hospital. Monroe County officials have formed a COVID-19 Vaccination Task Force to oversee the coordination and distribution of the novel coronavirus vaccine within the community, County Executive Adam Bello said during a Wednesday press briefing. Bello stressed that the task force would work to ensure equitable and transparent distribution of the vaccine in Monroe County. The task force announcement comes one day after the first doses of the vaccine to be given in Monroe County were administered to a small group of health workers at Strong Memorial Hospital.
We stand together in expressing serious concern with the Trump administration s vaccine distribution plan. While we are encouraged by recent reports regarding the vaccines efficacy, there is urgent work to be done to ensure vaccination efforts are both expeditious and fair.
Governors need federal funding in order to execute comprehensive distribution plans to guarantee that all communities have access to the vaccine. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials estimates that a comprehensive vaccine distribution program would cost approximately $8 billion. To date, the Trump Administration has administered a mere $200 million to the states.
Without adequate funding, distribution will not be equitable. COVID-19 has laid bare chronic health disparities in our country that led communities of color to suffer disproportionately from this virus. Communities of color disproportionately suffer from pre-existing conditions, such as asthma, obesity and hyp