National Academy of Medicine Members Urge Black Americans to Get Vaccinated (2021)
"Institute Professor Paula Hammond, head of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering...joined 60 Black members of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in encouraging Black Americans to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The participating scientists, doctors, nurses, public health experts, and other health professionals say they’ve reviewed the research and have confidence in the vaccines — some even participating in their development." --MIT Daily, 26 May 2021
Black members of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the premier health science organization in the United States, are encouraging Black Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them.
The members, who are Black scientists, doctors, nurses, public health experts, and other health professional members of the NAM, say that they have reviewed the research and have confidence in the vaccines. Some of the 60 members have participated in the development of the vaccines.
Black Americans stand a much greater chance of negative outcomes from COVID, making it all the more urgent that they have access to and get the vaccine.