A COVID Vaccine is (Just About) Here

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 10, 2020

The FDA will grant emergency use authorization for the COVID vaccine developed by Pfizer and German biotech company BioNTech. Uché Blackstock, urgent care physician, founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equities and a Yahoo News medical contributor talks about how the distribution planning is going, how equity is being taken into account and how to talk to people about it who are uncertain or definitely not planning to take it.

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