Tulane University: Dean LaVeist, Black Health Experts Call for Black Americans to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19
February 09, 2021
February 09, 2021
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 9 -- Tulane University issued the following news release:
Black Americans are 1.5 times more likely to die from COVID-19, yet communities of color are falling behind in the nation's vaccine rollout as many Black Americans are hesitant to take new vaccines against the disease.
Thomas LaVeist, dean of Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, authored a New York Times op/ed signed by 59 other Black health experts fr . . .
Black Americans are 1.5 times more likely to die from COVID-19, yet communities of color are falling behind in the nation's vaccine rollout as many Black Americans are hesitant to take new vaccines against the disease.
Thomas LaVeist, dean of Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, authored a New York Times op/ed signed by 59 other Black health experts fr . . .