In this episode of the Starting the Conversation series, Michael Sneed, Executive Vice President, Johnson & Johnson, travels to Los Angeles, California where he speaks with Alice Benjamin, MSN, APRN, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Family Nurse Practitioner and Dr. Jerry P. Abraham, MD MPH CMQ Director of Vaccine Programs at Kedren Community Health Center. These two community healthcare heroes are fighting the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism. Dr. Jerry Abraham shares that once vaccinations for COVID-19 became available, we heard a lot about ‘vaccine hesitancy’ among Blacks and other people of color. When digging deeper, one might see the slower uptake has more to do with lack of vaccine access and other barriers such as transportation or a lack of trust in healthcare and government programs rather than actual concerns about the vaccine.
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