Dr. Armen Henderson, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Miami and internal medicine physician, discusses the coronavirus vaccine through a Black lens.
From speaking out about racial disparities in our health care system and even participating in a COVID-19 vaccine trial, Dr. April Lockley is focused on ensuring that Black people have access to safe, effective, medically-proven treatment.
Parts of Europe were in full panic mode as public health officials there reported what seemed to be the U.K. outbreak of a new mutant strain of Covid-19 that is described as being exponentially more contagious.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a public health pediatrician whose research exposed the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, answers questions about the vaccine and allergies, and when kids might be able to get the vaccine.
As Black people disproportionately suffer from Covid-19, there are lingering questions about the distribution process that will determine who gets the coronavirus vaccine first.
Researchers say Black folks must be included in COVID-19 vaccine trials, but Black people’s historical mistrust among doctors, physicians and the entire American healthcare system needs to be reconciled first.
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan warned Black America to be skeptical of vaccines made from "their medications" to treat a disease that has disproportionately affected African Americans.
