*Bill and Melinda Gates want Black Americans to be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines.
In an interview with Forbes magazine, the billionaire couple explained how they plan to distribute their vaccines based on racial groups.
Melinda wants “Black people” and “indigenous people” to receive the vaccines first, most especially those who work in the health field.
“One of the reasons we are so involved in this is that you don’t want the first vaccines to go to the highest-bidding countries,” Melinda Gates said. “There are 60 million healthcare workers. They deserve to get the vaccine first, they’re the ones dealing with this on the front lines, trying to keep us all safe.”
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She added, “Then you have to start to tier from there, based on the countries and the populations. Here in the United States, it’s going to be black people who really should get it first and many indigenous people, as well as people with underlying symptoms, and then elderly people.”
The comments follow reports that a COVID-19 vaccine will work only if trials include Black participants, according to so-called health experts.
For months, COVID-19 officials have claimed that Black Americans have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
“And that’s why I do what I do,” said Calethia Hodges, a clinician at Infinite Clinical Trials outside Atlanta, per NBC News. “And that’s why I am here, in this neighborhood that is predominantly African American.”
Hodges wants people from urban communities to participate in clinical trials to help find a vaccine. But she’s finding that Black folks don’t trust the medical institutions or experimental drugs.
“The reasons I hear African Americans will not participate are heartbreaking and disappointing,” Hodges said. “I have heard about the Tuskegee experiment a lot. And I have heard ‘They [doctors] will give me the virus.’ And ‘They will put a chip inside me.’ Many say their parents raised them ‘to never participate in medical research.’ It’s all tough to overcome.”
Meanwhile, Bill Gates says the ‘final hurdle’ to distributing his Covid-19 vaccine will be convincing people to take it.
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