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The Black Church, Social Media, And Vaccine Hesitancy: A Program Evaluation Of A Virtual Town Hall Meeting Intended To Educate, Empower And Expedite Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake Intent Among Black Americans., Nina Johnson

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background: Vaccines are among the most important public health interventions of the 20th century saving millions of lives each year. Notwithstanding, the United States has seen a growing resistance to vaccinations since the late 1990s. Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is a delay or decline to accept vaccines, despite the available of safe and effective vaccines (WHO, 2019). Combatting VH in Black communities is especially challenging, complex, and multifaceted due to an elevated sense of medical mistrust from persistent racial discrimination, injustices and medical malfeasance. The current coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19) pandemic has further magnified the intersection of this structural racism, the associated …