Retired nurse on mission to urge people of color to get COVID-19 vaccine
Feb 18, 2021 catholic news service
Joyce Christian, along with her husband, Will, walk with their grandchildren in Somerville, Tenn., in this undated photo. She is a retired nurse who encourages African Americans and other people of color to get the COVID-19 vaccine. (Credit: CNS photo/Karen Pulfer Focht.)
Joyce Christian understands firsthand why many Black people and other people of color are hesitant and mistrust the medical community. Her father, Freddie Lee Tyson, was unknowingly a part of the U. S. Public Health Services Syphilis Study at Tuskegee in Alabama.
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