After months of grueling lockdowns from a deadly global pandemic, there’s finally a small light at the end of the tunnel. The COVID vaccine is on the way!
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On Thursday, just a day after the US experienced its most COVID deaths in a single day, the US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel of independent scientists and medical experts gave the green light for the 95% effective Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to receive emergency distribution throughout the United States.
The panel voted 17 to 4, with one member abstaining, in favor of the emergency authorization for Americans 16 and older. The full FDA is scheduled to vote and provide full authorization on Sunday, however, that is more of a formality.
Health care and front-line workers, as well as nursing home residents, will receive the first batch of the 6.4 million doses which could begin to ship out as early as Monday. If all goes well, every American who wants the double-dose vaccine could have it by as early as late Spring.
As President-elect Joe Biden once said, the vaccine will not cure COVID. It’s the vaccination (meaning the actual shots) that will put an end to the deadly pandemic. However, some Americans are skittish about taking it — up from 38% in October to 53% today.
Are you one of them? Will you or won’t you take the vaccine? Tell us in the comments below.
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Well…as I expressed on a previously related post – given the dark history of how WE (Blacks) have been used as guinea pigs (Unbeknown to Us until well after the fact) for medical research, sanctioned by the American government……..
And given that it usually takes on average about 10 yrs to develop and get FDA approval for use of a potential vaccine but somehow COVID vaccines have been developed literally in a matter of months AND already approved..!?!
No. I won’t be taking the vaccine. No time soon anyway. I’ll sit back and watch how things play out over the next year before I’ll even consider it.
Oh and they can try to mandate that all Americans must take that vaccine…and they will have REAL fight on their hands because No One is going to force me to inject that stuff into my body!.
They will not be able to make people take it. But I heard they might not let you get on a airplane or do normal things unless you take it.
Honestly BD, unless it’s a dire family emergency, I don’t plan to fly anywhere until this virus is really constrained. And as long it’s raging I can’t do normal things anyway.
But I get your point.
I’ll take it. By the time it’s available to me we’ll know if it’s safe.
I pray you’re right Wil. I pray you’re right.
On a related note…….
Dr. Anthony Fauci Appeals to Black Community: ‘The Vaccine That You’re Going to Be Taking Was Developed by an African American Woman’
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). […] – The Root, 12-10-20
I did not know a black woman worked on this. This is good information.
The Root Reader:
So? A black woman also worked on the Tuskegee Experiment.
No, I’m not implying that Dr. Corbett is up to something nefarious, and I’m actually somewhat pleasantly surprised that a black woman had a major role to play in this, but I’m tired of the, “We have a black one with us now, so you can totally trust us and completely ignore any historic/systemic crimes committed against you by us!” virtue-signaling from literally everyone lately, as if that’s all they need to do gain our trust. […]
The Root Reader:
I do trust that the vaccines are safe. But this does reek of, “Our vaccine is totally not racist because a black woman worked on it.” What gives me skepticism isn’t the vaccines themselves, but the transport and proper handling at vaccination stations. […]
Hey Truth you make a lot of good points. We as black people have every reason to be skeptical. They made us test monkeys too many times before. But I got a feeling this is different because they are not giving it to just black people like they did the sickle cell shot in the 1970’s. This vaccine is going all over the world. Yeah they had to rush it through but too many people are still dying and they did not have time like they usually would. I want to wait and see what happens to all the people getting it first before I decide. But like Wil was saying by the time it gets around to us we should know a lot more about it by then. Dr. Fauci said it is good and Barack said he would get it on tv. If that works out I might have to get it. But we will see.
DJ you always ask good questions. I have to wait and see if I take this thing or not.
The Root Reader:
Harriet A. Washington’s “Medical Apartheid” is a fascinating book that is also very difficult to read. Nothing to do with Washington’s writing, it’s the subject matter; chapter after chapter of horrors inflicted upon Black Americans in the name of science and medicine.
Good on Dr. Fauci for recognizing the history and not being afraid to discuss it. […]