Black Americans and COVID-19

“Black Americans have to be involved at all levels of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We cannot afford to be silent, detached, denied, or prevented from being at the decision-making tables in terms of COVID-19-based public health policies, research, clinical trials, remedies, and vaccine development. Our lives and future are at stake.” […]

     It is urgent that in the strategic rush now to develop an effective COVID-19 vaccine for all people that Black Americans are not left out of the process.  The health of our families and communities necessitates our involvement to raise all the questions that need to be raised, and at the same time to participate responsibly in the COVID-19 clinical trials. […]