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What’s not being said about why African Americans need to take the COVID-19 vaccine

  • Written by Debra Furr-Holden, Associate Dean for Public Health Integration, Michigan State University
imageLatrice Davis, a nurse at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago, receives the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 18, 2020. Scott Olson via Getty Images

Dr. Anthony Fauci and other national health leaders have said that African Americans need to take the COVID-19 vaccine to protect their health. What Fauci and others have not stated is that if African...

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