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Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium Members Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

Emma Lee
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WHYY
Dr. Ala Stanford receives her COVID-19 vaccination on Dec. 16, 2020.

The founder of Philadelphia's Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium and members of her team recently received their first doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. As WHYY’s Nina Feldman reports, Dr. Ala Stanford had not been planning to get the vaccine first.

(Original air-date: 12/17/20)

Nina Feldman covers health for WHYY, where her reporting has focused on the opioid epidemic, disparities in health care, and most recently the coronavirus pandemic. Before coming to Philadelphia in 2018, she worked in public radio in New Orleans.