Many are dismissive of public service announcements, the doctors say, and of the federal government. But the assurances of Black and Hispanic doctors can make an enormous difference, experts say. “I think it makes a whole lot of difference,” said Dr Valeria Daniela Lucio Cantos, an infectious disease specialist at Emory. She has been running online town halls and webinars on the subject of vaccination, including one with Black and Hispanic employees of the cleaning staff at the university. “And it has to come from someone who looks like them.”“My friends and family say, ‘Even if the risk is one in a million, I am not taking it,’” she added.

Source: bd News24 January 02, 2021 09:11 UTC