Mobile labs take vaccine studies to diverse neighborhoods

way have a model that getting to the vaccine is half the goal, three other the other half of the goals really preparing communities to receive it. And that means building trust and report so that a broad range of communities feel that they can trust and are ready to receive the vaccine. And so that really means being out in the community on this curious Indians or give Carlos studio. At the root of a lot of the questions is a sense of mistrust, a sense of fear that's based on past abuses, you know by medical institutions, public health issues on communities of color. And so that's expressed in many different ways. For some people, it's, you know, I just don't trust the medical institution or researchers For some people that's expressed as a conspiracy theory or fear that they might be injected with a chip. So to be eligible for the study, you have to be 18 and older. Now it's really critical for us. Toe have a study population that is diverse and representative of the population that have been most impacted by Kobe. So again that includes black populations, Latin X populations, older adults, those with underlying conditions, the product has arrived. Okay, At one point in the summer, I counted the people who I knew of who had either contracted and or died. And it was over 20 in the summer. Um, and this doesn't seem to be going away, so I'm much more afraid of the disease than the vaccine. 12. Like if we're not way, don't speak English properly or we don't feel comfortable in the environment we're in, Then it's easier to feel mawr skeptical or more down about something new that comes out or to be against it.

Lani Muller doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t have to visit a doctor바카라 게임 웹사이트�s office to help test an experimental COVID-19 vaccine 바카라 게임 웹사이트� she just climbs into a bloodmobile-like van that parks on a busy street near her New York City neighborhood.The U.S. is rightly fixated on the chaotic rollout of the first two authorized vaccines to fight the pandemic. But with more vaccines in the pipeline 바카라 게임 웹사이트� critical to boosting global supplies 바카라 게임 웹사이트� scientists worry whether enough volunteers will join and stick with the testing needed to prove if they, too, really work.Those studies, like earlier ones, must include communities of color that have been hard-hit by the pandemic, communities that also voice concern about the vaccination drive in part because of a long history of racial health care disparities and even research abuses. To help, researchers in more than a dozen spots around the country are rolling out mobile health clinics to better reach minority participants and people in rural areas who might not otherwise volunteer.Muller, who is Black, said her family was worried about the vaccine research so she didn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t mention she바카라 게임 웹사이트�d signed up to test AstraZeneca바카라 게임 웹사이트�s shot.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The legacy of African Americans in science in these sort of trials hasn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t been great and we haven바카라 게임 웹사이트�t forgotten,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Muller, 49, a Columbia University employee whose participation in some prior research projects made her willing to get a test injection earlier this month.Muller knows more than 20 people who have gotten or died from COVID-19. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m much more afraid of the disease than the vaccine trial," she said.From the beginning, the National Institutes of Health was adamant that COVID-19 vaccines be tested in a population about as diverse as the nation's 바카라 게임 웹사이트� key to building confidence in whichever shots proved to work. In studies of the Pfizer and Moderna shots so far cleared for widespread U.S. use, 10% of volunteers were Black, and more were Hispanic.Diversity is an even tougher challenge now. The high-risk volunteers needed for final testing of other vaccine candidates have to decide if they want to stick with an experimental injection 바카라 게임 웹사이트� one that might be a dummy shot 바카라 게임 웹사이트� or try to get in line for a rationed but proven dose.AstraZeneca, with about 30,000 volunteers so far, didn't release specific numbers but said the last weeks of enrollment are focusing on recruiting more minorities and people over age 65. Another maker, Novavax, just began recruiting for its final testing last month.Studying the vaccines in diverse populations is only one step in building trust, said Dr. Wayne Frederick, president of Howard University, a historically Black university in the nation's capital.Howard's hospital shared video of Frederick and other health workers getting vaccinated as a public service announcement encouraging African Americans to get their own shot as soon as it's their turn.Frederick, a surgeon who's also at high risk because of diabetes and sickle cell disease, said he's dismayed to get emails espousing conspiracy theories such as that vaccination is 바카라 게임 웹사이트�an experiment on African Americans.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�There is misinformation that does require all of us to be in the forefront of getting involved and challenging it," he said.But efforts to build confidence in the vaccines could be undermined if, once there's more supply to go around, hard-hit minority communities get left behind.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The equity issue is absolutely important,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Stephaun Wallace, a scientist at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center who also is part of the NIH-created COVID-19 Prevention Network that helps with vaccine research and education. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�It's important that we ensure that the vaccine is getting to the people, and that is an access issue."Using vans to reach at-risk communities has long been a staple of fighting HIV, another illness that has disproportionately struck Black Americans. And as more doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines arrive, mobile clinics are expected to help expand COVID-19 vaccination access, especially in rural areas.But the NIH program has a different focus, offering RV-sized mobile clinics from Matrix Medical Network to help improve the diversity of ongoing vaccine studies. Officials say they've been used at a Lakota reservation, at chicken-processing plants with a largely Hispanic workforce, and in cities like Washington where Howard University is recruiting volunteers for the new Novavax study.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t think we can sit in the ivory towers and hope that people come to us. I think that would be a mistake,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Howard's Frederick.Researchers from the New York Blood Center regularly park their lab-on-wheels in parts of Queens and Brooklyn with large Black, Asian and Hispanic populations, so that even after study enrollment ends the participants can pop in for required check-ups.They also make a point of standing outside to answer questions from passersby confused about COVID-19 vaccination in general.It's "building trust and rapport,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Dr. Jorge Soler, who helps study the AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the blood center's Project Achieve. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m Latino and I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m a scientist. To be able to say that to people means something.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Soler sometimes has to dispel fears that getting vaccinated might mean being 바카라 게임 웹사이트�injected with a chip," or having information collected for surveillance purposes.He stresses that the Pfizer and Moderna shots now being used cannot give someone the coronavirus 바카라 게임 웹사이트� that's biologically impossible as neither is made with the actual virus.And over and over, people wonder how these vaccines appeared so quickly.Soler바카라 게임 웹사이트�s simple explanation for how to speed research without cutting corners? 바카라 게임 웹사이트�This is what happens when the world is invested in something. You build a car faster with 20 people than you do with two.바카라 게임 웹사이트�___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

The U.S. is rightly fixated on the chaotic rollout of the first two authorized vaccines to fight the pandemic. But with more vaccines in the pipeline 바카라 게임 웹사이트� critical to boosting global supplies 바카라 게임 웹사이트� scientists worry whether enough volunteers will join and stick with the testing needed to prove if they, too, really work.

Those studies, like earlier ones, must include communities of color that have been hard-hit by the pandemic, communities that also voice concern about the vaccination drive in part because of a long history of racial health care disparities and even research abuses. To help, researchers in more than a dozen spots around the country are rolling out mobile health clinics to better reach minority participants and people in rural areas who might not otherwise volunteer.

Muller, who is Black, said her family was worried about the vaccine research so she didn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t mention she바카라 게임 웹사이트�d signed up to test AstraZeneca바카라 게임 웹사이트�s shot.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�The legacy of African Americans in science in these sort of trials hasn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t been great and we haven바카라 게임 웹사이트�t forgotten,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Muller, 49, a Columbia University employee whose participation in some prior research projects made her willing to get a test injection earlier this month.

Muller knows more than 20 people who have gotten or died from COVID-19. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m much more afraid of the disease than the vaccine trial," she said.

From the beginning, the National Institutes of Health was adamant that COVID-19 vaccines be tested in a population about as diverse as the nation's 바카라 게임 웹사이트� key to building confidence in whichever shots proved to work. In studies of the Pfizer and Moderna shots so far cleared for widespread U.S. use, 10% of volunteers were Black, and more were Hispanic.

Diversity is an even tougher challenge now. The high-risk volunteers needed for final testing of other vaccine candidates have to decide if they want to stick with an experimental injection 바카라 게임 웹사이트� one that might be a dummy shot 바카라 게임 웹사이트� or try to get in line for a rationed but proven dose.

AstraZeneca, with about 30,000 volunteers so far, didn't release specific numbers but said the last weeks of enrollment are focusing on recruiting more minorities and people over age 65. Another maker, Novavax, just began recruiting for its final testing last month.

Studying the vaccines in diverse populations is only one step in building trust, said Dr. Wayne Frederick, president of Howard University, a historically Black university in the nation's capital.

Howard's hospital shared video of Frederick and other health workers getting vaccinated as a public service announcement encouraging African Americans to get their own shot as soon as it's their turn.

Frederick, a surgeon who's also at high risk because of diabetes and sickle cell disease, said he's dismayed to get emails espousing conspiracy theories such as that vaccination is 바카라 게임 웹사이트�an experiment on African Americans.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

바카라 게임 웹사이트�There is misinformation that does require all of us to be in the forefront of getting involved and challenging it," he said.

But efforts to build confidence in the vaccines could be undermined if, once there's more supply to go around, hard-hit minority communities get left behind.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�The equity issue is absolutely important,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Stephaun Wallace, a scientist at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center who also is part of the NIH-created COVID-19 Prevention Network that helps with vaccine research and education. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�It's important that we ensure that the vaccine is getting to the people, and that is an access issue."

Using vans to reach at-risk communities has long been a staple of fighting HIV, another illness that has disproportionately struck Black Americans. And as more doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines arrive, mobile clinics are expected to help expand COVID-19 vaccination access, especially in rural areas.

But the NIH program has a different focus, offering RV-sized mobile clinics from Matrix Medical Network to help improve the diversity of ongoing vaccine studies. Officials say they've been used at a Lakota reservation, at chicken-processing plants with a largely Hispanic workforce, and in cities like Washington where Howard University is recruiting volunteers for the new Novavax study.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t think we can sit in the ivory towers and hope that people come to us. I think that would be a mistake,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Howard's Frederick.

Researchers from the New York Blood Center regularly park their lab-on-wheels in parts of Queens and Brooklyn with large Black, Asian and Hispanic populations, so that even after study enrollment ends the participants can pop in for required check-ups.

They also make a point of standing outside to answer questions from passersby confused about COVID-19 vaccination in general.

It's "building trust and rapport,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Dr. Jorge Soler, who helps study the AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the blood center's Project Achieve. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m Latino and I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m a scientist. To be able to say that to people means something.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

Soler sometimes has to dispel fears that getting vaccinated might mean being 바카라 게임 웹사이트�injected with a chip," or having information collected for surveillance purposes.

He stresses that the Pfizer and Moderna shots now being used cannot give someone the coronavirus 바카라 게임 웹사이트� that's biologically impossible as neither is made with the actual virus.

And over and over, people wonder how these vaccines appeared so quickly.

Soler바카라 게임 웹사이트�s simple explanation for how to speed research without cutting corners? 바카라 게임 웹사이트�This is what happens when the world is invested in something. You build a car faster with 20 people than you do with two.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

___

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

Mobile labs take vaccine studies to diverse neighborhoods

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