Some Black MS residents are skeptical of COVID vaccine. Can researchers change minds? [The Sun Herald]
Dec. 21 A few days ago, Vanessa Reed got a letter in the mail. A company called ClinicalResearch.com wanted her to know she could get up to $740 and potentially a free COVID-19 vaccine if she signed up for a clinical trial.
Reed, who is Black and Native American, tossed the letter aside.
“To me it’s dangerous,” she said of the vaccine. “I do believe in vaccinating your children. But I just don’t trust any of this. People can tell me it’s OK, but their body is not my body.”
Alabama State graduate who mentored 2 generations dead of COVID
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
By Isabelle Taft The Sun Herald (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
To two generations of Jackson County kids, he was Uncle Beev: James Davis, Jr., the director of the Boys & Girls Club Andrew Johnson unit in Pascagoula, and fixture at every high school football and basketball game.
Though few knew the story, and some who once knew it had forgotten it, the nickname Beev dated to childhood, when he had been a skinny kid with big front teeth. The nickname was “Beaver” at first, but Beev was what stuck.