The most prominent anti-vaxxers are men. And spoiler alert--they are Democrats. Get RFK Jr. and Robert DeNiro to take the vaccine on camera and divest of their long-disruptive anti-vax crusades. Add in the Independents who claim vaccines are just a Big Pharma scam. All are wrong.
The erroneous long-debunked link between vaccines & autism basically stipulates that it is better to have a dead child than an autistic child. I have several friends whose children are autistic who will fight you on that. Stop using your ableism to mask your own irrational fears.
Vaccines have been established science since 1796. If you are over the age of five, you are alive because of vaccines. Stop standing in the way of saving lives.
Black Americans have every right to be skeptical of the medical system-- they are the cohort that has been used in unscrupulous and deadly medical experimentation like Tuskeegee. Or the torture of Black women in gynecological experiments. Those folks need to feel safe.
Black health leaders nationwide are both being part of these vaccine trials, like doctors from Howard and Morehouse, or are working with other Black and brown leadership to address these concerns. Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath was on @BrookeBCNN discussing this earlier.
Biden has Black and brown healthcare professionals leading his coronavirus task force, as I reported two weeks ago. These are crucial voices in this effort. But as McMurry-Heath said, this is a powerful way to make #BlackLivesMatter --by getting the vaccine.
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