There are key strategies that can be leveraged by state, federal and local officials to assuage concerns of vaccine mistrust in BIPOC communities in a way that gives them the respect they currently lack and expand access to these life-saving drugs.
The CEO of Howard University Hospital, located on the campus of one the country's oldest historically Black colleges in Washington, D.C., received the Covid-19 vaccine in the hopes of encouraging her staff to follow her lead and help dispel the generations-long mistrust in the U.S. healthcare system among the Black community.
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.