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.