To assuage fears within minority communities, a panel of Black doctors will vet the federal review of companies’ vaccines, said Leon McDougle, president of the National Medical Association, the largest and oldest group of Black physicians in the country. “We have concerns,” McDougle told MSNBC Thursday about the vaccine’s review process. The FDA referred The Washington Post to its past statements about the review process when asked about the panel, including testimony by Commissioner Stephen Hahn on Wednesday that its investigations into coronavirus vaccine candidates would be thorough. In South Miami, Carroll-Scott informally surveyed her own patients about their likelihood of getting a coronavirus vaccine and found “a lot of the patients were concerned about the speed.”AD“Overwhelmingly the answer was no. I don’t think I had one patient who said that they would be willing to take this vaccine,” she said.

Source: Washington Post September 26, 2020 12:02 UTC