A panel of Black community leaders and medical professionals met virtually Saturday to address distrust surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine in local communities of color.
With more than 90 participants on the Zoom call, Kiantha Duncan, president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, ran a poll.
Seventy-four percent of respondents answered, yes, they would take the vaccine. Eight percent said no and 18% said they weren’t sure.
The hesitance demonstrated by more than a quarter of those attending the meeting is deeply rooted in history, said Christymarie Jackson, an equity and social justice consultant at the Washington State Department of Health.
“For me, trust is earned, and government and
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