Janice Blanchard MD PhD is a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. Janice Blanchard(CNN) This week, I received the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. Right before I got the shot, I had a very sick patient come in to the emergency department severely dehydrated and with confusion caused by the virus. The day before, I put another patient with Covid-19 on a ventilator as she gasped for breath. There has been a lot of discussion within my own African American community about the vaccine.

Source: CNN December 22, 2020 00:00 UTC