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Returning to Vox Pop today is virologist Dr. Eric Yager of the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He is ready to take your questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and the virus in general. WAMC s Ray Graf hosts.
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Watch: Panel discusses vaccine hesitancy in communities of color
Experts to discuss roots of phenomenon, why it fuels health disparities
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Lindsay Kolysko, nurse educator in emergency room, right, administers one of the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Cynthia Tanksley, patient associate specialist in emergency room, at Albany Medical Center on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 in Albany, N.Y. The hospital staff started vaccinating their health care workers on the first day the vaccine was administered in the United States. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union
ALBANY The problem of vaccine hesitancy among communities of color across the nation is a threat that has hobbled past responses to health crises as mundane yet deadly as the annual flu, and presents a far more grave risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has done disproportionate damage to Black and Latino Americans.
New York ponders mandatory vaccinations if herd immunity fails
Competing bills on vaccinations emerge as health officials hope for an end to pandemic
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1of3Dr. Michelle Chester holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York.Mark Lennihan/APShow MoreShow Less
ALBANY New York lawmakers are mulling legislation that would potentially allow health officials to decide whether coronavirus vaccinations should be mandatory for the public if herd immunity is not achieved next year.
There are concerns among some public officials about the willingness of people to be vaccinated for the infectious disease, while other officials have proposed that receiving the vaccine should be a personal choice.