Operation Warp Speed hits speedbumps in vaccinating communities
and last updated 2021-01-05 21:30:50-05
CENTRAL TEXAS â Despite ongoing efforts by the county and health systems to roll out the new COVID-19 vaccine, studies show communities of color find it difficult to trust the system.
Look at polls today and you ll find fears about COVID and even it s vaccine, with mistrust high in African-American and Latino communities.
As people stand in long lines for a coronavirus vaccine, the reaction from many minority communities is mistrust. I m cool. I m not taking that, said Richard Starr, who says even with studies showing high efficacy rates, a shot in the arm does not reassure him.
Experts consider Christmas shopping a COVID-19 superspreader event
and last updated 2020-12-24 20:31:29-05
If you did any Christmas shopping in the past week or so, you may have put yourself in the middle of a COVID-19 superspreader event.
Experts say people not following health rules to the letter makes for big gaps in safety, which nobody wants to think about this time of year. Christmas shopping itself has been a superspreader event if you take in summary all the people that are out because of that Christmas shopping and their potential exposures. Then you ve increased the risk of the community for an increased number of cases, explained McLennan County Health Authority Dr. Farley Verner.