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WHAT IS IN THE VACCINE??
THEY HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO TEST FOR SIDE EFFECTS. WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT??
IS IT ONE SIZE FITS ALL?
How do they know what dosage is right for me?
WHAT ARE THE DOSAGES?
CAN THEY FORCE ME TO TAKE IT?
WHAT ABOUT MY BLOOD TYPE?
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The Covid Vaccine and the African American Community
African Americans have a long history of skepticism and mistrust of the medical and health care industry. From the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, The John Hopkins medical invasion of Henrietta Lacks to the recent Coronavirsus Epidemic, African Americans have become increasingly more concerned with trusting the US Medical Industry in its entirety.
As Advocates in the area of healthcare reform and equity for multicultural communities, MACC has assembled a national panel of African American doctors for this urgent conversation. The January MACC Cultural Conversation will focus on the growing concern and resistance within the African American community to the vaccine.
PRESENTERS
January 2021 Conversation & Panelist
COVID Vaccine & the African American Community
DR. KARIN SHAW WURAPA
Family, Lifestyle, and Preventive Medicine Physician, Public Health Policy Specialist
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Moderator
TRACY MAXWELL HEARD
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,
MACC, INC.
“MACC has assembled a national panel of African American doctors for this urgent conversation focusing on the concern and resistance within the African American community to the vaccine.
We will begin with a historical reflection explaining why African Americans have such a mistrust toward the healthcare system and then ask and answer all the questions on the table around the vaccine."