Black doctors on tackling the myths that fuel Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy.
Linda Goler Blount, an epidemiologist who is president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, the first nonprofitthat focuses strictly on the care of Black women, said she has found that hesitancy is tied to fear, which is tied to misinformation or myths.
Dr. Jayne Morgan, clinical director of the Covid Task Force at Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta, combats the myths and misunderstandings around the coronavirus by posting YouTube videos that answer pandemic-related questions, using “plain and easily digestible language.” Some of her videos get thousands of views, some fewer than 500. She said she has heard from many viewers who thank her for the information.
She said government involvement has not helped ease Black people’s concerns or minimized their notions of plots against them.“We had ‘Operation Warp Speed,’ and the government provided the funding to get these things moving quickly,” she said. “And the government is distributing the vaccines. You talk about the very little trust with the health system, and then we talk about research where we almost have no trust at all, and then there’s the government.
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