Episode 14: Understanding the COVID-19 Vaccine and Medical Racism with We Got Us
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As more adults become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, we wanted to have a conversation about the COVID-19 vaccine. In this episode, we bring on the We Got Us Empowerment Project, a grassroots organization founded by Harvard Medical School student LaShyra “Lash” Nolen. They are a collective of Black community members, healthcare professionals, students, and allies dedicated to educating their communities about COVID-19 and ensuring their access to the vaccine.
Join us as we discuss with Community Engagement Director, Kareem King, and Co-Project Director, Caleb Gordon, of the We Got Us Empowerment Project and how they are providing members of their community with resources and information to make their own well-informed decisions about the vaccine, breaking down and dismantling myths about the vaccines, and combating systems of oppression in our healthcare system and unjust medical treatment in the Black community.
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"[We Got Us] started from this place of acknowledging the fact that Black communities really don't have a space in medicine.
[We saw] this a gap in understanding and trust in the community.
[And we wanted people to have others] who are in their corner to understand them and know how to talk to them.”
- Kareem King
“And I think all of our pillars are kind of underscored by this understanding of history — this deep understanding of the medical history that underscores how we experience medicine how Black people experience medicine and people of color experience medicine.”
- Caleb Gordon
