At your age, it's a vaccine or a grave.
A nurse at Baton Rouge was on the crusade to overcome resistance among elderly African-Americans who were reluctant to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
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| Health in USA Vaccines 2021 |
Flossy West, 73, of East Baton Rouge Council in Aging, received a shot of the coronavirus vaccine. He said earlier, "I'm not interested because everyone tells me the virus is a hoax," Credit ... Abdul Aziz on behalf of the New York Times
Button Rouge, LA - Flossy West was not at all interested in getting the Carlavirus vaccine.
Carla Brown, the nurse in charge of her care, was determined to change her mind.
Mrs West, 73, has ovarian cancer, congestive heart failure and respiratory problems - conditions that put her at serious risk for contracting the virus. As such, Covid-19 has killed many of its neighbors in mid-City, a lower-class, predominantly black community that spreads east of the state capital of Louisiana.
But Mr. West's skepticism about the new vaccines has overshadowed his fears of Covid-19. “I’m just not interested because everyone tells me the virus is a hoax,” Mrs. West said. "And besides, this shot will make me sicker than ever."
On Thursday morning, Mrs. Brown, 62, entered Mrs. West's apartment and delivered a stern speech: the virus is true, the vaccines are harmless, and Mrs. West has to get out of bed, grab her oxygen tank, and get into her car.
Mrs. Brown, a nurse at Hospice, has a good idea of how the vaccine will change the minds of skeptics: encouraging one-on-one conversations with respectable people in the black community who can deal with these misconceptions and provide reliable information while acknowledging what she has described. Inheritance as a sign of injury. "If you go back to our history, we have been lied to and there has been a lot of racial pain, so it has to increase our faith," he said
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