As a nurse, I appreciate this article. I read it until the end and was dismayed that there weren't any suggestions for solutions. Acknowledgement is important, but where do we go from here?
Stacey - thanks for reading it. 1) We need to put the message in the hands of trusted community leaders, 2) We need to reinvest in local health departments in Black communities, 3) We need to have a far more vested focus in training Black providers, 4) We need to teach about this in school and open up about it.
Thanks for sharing. Agree that blacks have been used and abused forever. Thier distrust is real and deserved. I have lived with chronic pain and now am disabled. I am sick of bring treated like i am faking and telling me I need to relax and do the MacKenzie method. I am a RN and white! If I get abused, I can't imagine what it must be like for a average Joe of color. Again, thanks for thus article
How does science do that fast? QAnon moves so fast, we can't even build trust with white people. COVID isn't waiting for the number of iterations needed to establish trust no matter how genuine it is.
Hey Joe - I hear you. I think the broader point is that we should have started doing that *before* this happened. We're playing catch up now. I think the key point here is to put the message into the community--lead with folks who have strong records of trust by bringing them in transparently & explaining this vaccine in full detail.
As a nurse, I appreciate this article. I read it until the end and was dismayed that there weren't any suggestions for solutions. Acknowledgement is important, but where do we go from here?
Stacey - thanks for reading it. 1) We need to put the message in the hands of trusted community leaders, 2) We need to reinvest in local health departments in Black communities, 3) We need to have a far more vested focus in training Black providers, 4) We need to teach about this in school and open up about it.
These are great points. This could be a series of articles...Thank you. I'm interested in learning more.
Thanks for sharing. Agree that blacks have been used and abused forever. Thier distrust is real and deserved. I have lived with chronic pain and now am disabled. I am sick of bring treated like i am faking and telling me I need to relax and do the MacKenzie method. I am a RN and white! If I get abused, I can't imagine what it must be like for a average Joe of color. Again, thanks for thus article
How does science do that fast? QAnon moves so fast, we can't even build trust with white people. COVID isn't waiting for the number of iterations needed to establish trust no matter how genuine it is.
Hey Joe - I hear you. I think the broader point is that we should have started doing that *before* this happened. We're playing catch up now. I think the key point here is to put the message into the community--lead with folks who have strong records of trust by bringing them in transparently & explaining this vaccine in full detail.