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Dr. Anthony Fauci Appeals to Black Community: ‘The Vaccine That You’re Going to Be Taking Was Developed by an African American Woman’
https://www.theroot.com/dr-anthony-f...acc-1845853569
With skepticism about the safety and efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine running high among African Americans, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, wants Black people to know that a Black woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, was heavily involved in developing one of the vaccines that will soon be available to Americans later this month.
Fauci, speaking at a National Urban League event on Tuesday, acknowledged the history behind African American distrust of medical research and the American health care system, reports CNN. But the epidemiologist also emphasized that the two forthcoming coronavirus vaccines are both safe and effective, drawing attention to Dr. Corbett’s involvement in the process.
“The very vaccine that’s one of the two that has absolutely exquisite levels—94 to 95 percent efficacy against clinical disease and almost 100 percent efficacy against serious disease that are shown to be clearly safe—that vaccine was actually developed in my institute’s vaccine research center by a team of scientists led by Dr. Barney Graham and his close colleague, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, or Kizzy Corbett,” Fauci said.
“So, the first thing you might want to say to my African American brothers and sisters is that the vaccine that you’re going to be taking was developed by an African American woman,” he continued. “And that is just a fact.”
The vaccine Fauci is referring to is the one that will be released by Moderna, one of two vaccines that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to give emergency use authorization to (the other will be distributed by Pfizer). Dr. Corbett, the lead scientist for the National Institute of Health’s coronavirus vaccine research, has spoken out about institutional distrust in the Black community in the past, saying she’s seen the hesitancy to take vaccines first-hand.
“I would say to people who are vaccine-hesitant that you’ve earned the right to ask the questions that you have around these vaccines and this vaccine development process,” Corbett told the CNN podcast “Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction.”
"It's the right thing to do."
"It's respectful."
"It's the best decision."
"No one can replace Chadwick, this is what he would have wanted."
Social media groupthink and lack of foresight strike again. Well, at least Killmonger isn't coming back, or they aren't shoehorning Shuri "because comics" or M'baku in as BP. There really isn't a reason outside of feelings why T'Challa's story has to end. They could have pushed the movie back a little while longer and recast the role, it would have angered fewer people. To continue without him feels wrong.
I see. Hope they bring in as many of the Netflix principles as possible, again, if.
They are not, specially for a guy with no income. Which is the biggest part of the Cage mythos that they largely left out (for the best I guess in a way). The Hero for Hire part got turned into a swear jar.
Beefing up the old home security, huh?You bet yer ass.
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
You mean caps 2 sidekicks?
"I do what he does, just slower"
Gonna praise rhodeys series next?
I mean... Ive enjoyed basically every MCU product to varying degrees and really want to see Fal/WS but im not gonna act like they are some bastion of minority representation. they coulda easily just called the show "captain falcon"
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They'll be in for a shock. I've ran this by some people I know and the reactions range from how to why. Having had a day to consider all this I won't be seeing Black Panther 2 if they actually go through with this. It's a shame but as a fan I don't want to contribute to the burying of T'Challa.
Somewhere, a nerd cries. I feel nothing.
I've been on team Kevin Feige for the longest. But he let me down big time.
Dude, I have defended that dude all over the internet haha. I love the MCU. The MCU is why I branched out in comics and such. the MCU is why I post on CBR
but god... this announcement sucks for me.
And his fanboyism over spider-man is grown inducing from the very bginning (parker did not belong in Civil War like that) and this spider-verse thing just feels like Star wars like nostalgia bait.
Frankly, with star wars and how the MCU is going, I am just going to hav eto pick and choose what I like and wiki the rest now. Sadly.
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