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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,697 posts)
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 02:58 PM Feb 2021

Obama calls for Americans to get vaccinated in tweet addressing misinformation

Source: The Hill

Former President Obama on Tuesday shared a message on Twitter encouraging Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine while addressing misinformation that has circulated about vaccinations.

"There is a lot of disinformation out there, but here’s the truth: You should get a COVID vaccine as soon as it's available to you. It could save your life—or a loved one’s," Obama wrote, while linking to a New York Times op-ed.


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The article outlined the distrust within the Black community concerning the COVID-19 vaccine and shared the opinions of 60 National Academy of Medicine members who all encouraged Black Americans to get vaccinated.

"We feel compelled to make the case that all Black Americans should get vaccinated to protect themselves from a pandemic that has disproportionately killed them at a rate 1.5 times as high as white Americans in cases in which race is known — a rate that is most likely very conservative," the op-ed reads.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/538003-obama-calls-for-americans-to-get-vaccinated-in-tweet-addressing-misinformation
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Obama calls for Americans to get vaccinated in tweet addressing misinformation (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP
Problem now is the availability BumRushDaShow Feb 2021 #1
What? Obama is pushing the vacination? LiberalLovinLug Feb 2021 #2

BumRushDaShow

(169,725 posts)
1. Problem now is the availability
Tue Feb 9, 2021, 07:02 PM
Feb 2021

and getting it to the communities that need it without a ridiculous amount of travel involved (including little or no access to public transit) - which IMHO should start involving use of "mobile units" (like those Red Cross blood-mobiles).

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