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Fighting distrust among Black people in Syracuse over Covid vaccine: ‘Be an example’
Syracuse.com
2/22/2021
Patrick Lohmann, syracuse.com
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Onondaga County workers administer coronavirus vaccinations at the Boys & Girls Club of Syracuse Thursday, February 18, 2021.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Juanita Nelson beamed as she stepped out of the People’s AME Zion church, having just received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
“I didn’t even feel it,” Nelson, a Black woman in her 80s, said of the needle entering her arm.
She and others interviewed at the church last week expressed relief, a sense of finally feeling protected against a virus that has killed many of their peers. ....

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