How to overcome vaccine distrust among Black Americans
Rashawn Ray pens OpEd in The Hill
Blacks are 60 percent less likely than other racial groups to say they will definitely or probably take the COVID-19 vaccine. Faculty Associate Rashawn Ray offers recommendations for how America should address this gap to properly ensure that the group hardest hit by COVID-19 gets the vaccine they so desperately deserve and need.
Bottom line: trust must be earned. To overcome problematic political narratives and social media falsehoods, vaccine implementation and marketing must go local.