Health Equity

Getting Vaccinated While Black

Abstract: Obtaining a COVID shot, like so many other aspects of American life, has emerged as a racial-justice issue—and a matter of life and death.

Publication: Vanity Fair

Date Published: April 1, 2021

Author(s): Jimmie Briggs

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