Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Sometimes a cliché is just right. The Sandtown neighborhood of West Baltimore, for example, does look like a war zone.
Most of the residents are African American, and what that means, not just here but nationally, is that they are being hospitalized and dying of COVID-19 at two to three times the rate of White Americans. Prison is a perfect breeding ground for the disease, but when ex-convicts come home to Sandtown, they re given a gentler euphemism: Returning citizens. We still have massive unemployment within the community. We have returning citizens, the Reverend Derrick DeWitt said.
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