For Black Americans, fear fuels doubt about COVID-19 vaccines
Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for distribution at a vaccination center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas.
Photo: Associated Press
02-08-2021
Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for distribution at a vaccination center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas.
Photo: Associated Press By Robert C. Jones Jr.
02-08-2021
Mistrust of the coronavirus inoculations is rooted in a long history of medical mistreatment of patients of color. More efforts are needed to gain their confidence, University of Miami medical authorities say.
Patsy Gilreath Moore, affectionately known as âMama Moore,â was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on Dec. 22, 1940. She was the eldest of seven children born to Greene and Grace Dean Gilreath. As a young girl, she had a love for books, reading, and playing the piano. During her teenage years, she was a pianist at Saint Home United Methodist Church.
In 1958, she graduated salutatorian from Lincoln High School, and in 1962, she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in both French and English from Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.
She moved to Miami, Florida, in 1962 and began her career as an educator at North Dade Senior High School. That year, she met and married Algernon J. Moore, Sr. To their forty-year union, five children were born, two sons: Howard and Algernon Jr., and three daughters: Angela, Joanna, and Rachel.
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Kyla Harris, 10, writes a tribute to her grandmother Patsy Gilreath Moore, who died at age 79 of COVID-19, at a symbolic cemetery in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
FLORIDA The United States recently surpassed yet another devastating milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. To date, more than 300,000 Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus. In Florida, the state has seen more than 20,400 residents die from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
It s an impossible number. It s also impossible to convey the full extent of the losses using only numbers.
Every death meant more than a statistic. A child lost his mother; a mother lost her child and maybe her own mother, too. A community lost a teacher, a mentor, a student, a coach. The front line lost a nurse, a doctor, an EMT, a hospital orderly.
UpdatedSun, Dec 20, 2020 at 12:19 pm ET
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Kyla Harris, 10, writes a tribute to her grandmother Patsy Gilreath Moore, who died at age 79 of COVID-19, at a symbolic cemetery in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
VIRGINIA The United States recently surpassed yet another devastating milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. To date, more than 300,000 Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus. In Virginia, the state has seen more than 4,600 residents die from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
Just over 700 District of Columbia residents have lost their battle with the virus.
It s an impossible number. It s also impossible to convey the full extent of the losses using only numbers.