Tyler Perry will broadcast on television getting his COVID-19 vaccine to quell “healthy skepticism” around the injection
- Currently, cases in the United States are decreasing, but the number of deaths remains high, recently averaging more than 3,000 per day
- President Biden is trying to increase the vaccination effort across the country
- On Tuesday, he announced that his government was close to buying another 200 million doses of vaccine from Moderna and Pfizer
- COVID-19 vaccine and the black community: A special by Tyler Perry will air Thursday, January 28 at 9 pm at BET
Tyler Perry is receiving the COVID-19 vaccine during a BET special to encourage the black community to get their vaccines.
The media mogul, 51, announced his plans while talking to Gayle King on CBS This Morning on Wednesday, admitting that he was also “skeptical” about the vaccine at first.
Explaining the roots of this caution, Tyler said to Gayle: ‘If you look at our history in this country, the experiment by Tuskegee, Henrietta Lacks and things like that, raises flags for us as African Americans.’
‘So I understand why there is a healthy skepticism about the vaccine.’
Inoculated: Tyler Perry will share his COVID-19 vaccination experience in an upcoming BET special, trying to contain ‘healthy skepticism’ about vaccines in the black community
The Tuskegee experiment was an unethical natural history study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which attempted to track the effects of untreated syphilis.
Henrietta Lacks was a black woman whose cancer cells were removed without her consent for research and are now the source of the highly important research cell line, the HeLa cell line.
Tyler’s concerns, however, were allayed by doctors, who will also appear in the special to explain the science behind the vaccine.
“I wanted to understand the technology of this,” Tyler. who received the Pfizer vaccine, said.
Science: Tyler’s concerns, however, were allayed by doctors, who will also appear in the special to explain the science behind the vaccine
Informed: Perry said that while he was concerned about ‘things like’ warp speed ” pushing the survey too fast, he said ‘once I got all the information, I found the survey, I was very, very happy’
“We talked about everything from the 1918 Spanish flu to what is happening now and where it came from, but I think my main issue was understanding mRNA technology.”
He was also concerned about the rapid pace of vaccine development, which the CDC said could be developed ‘faster than traditional methods’.
‘Things like’ warp speed ‘, I was really concerned because in this last administration and all the pressure they were putting on the CDC and the FDA, I didn’t feel like I could trust that,’ he said.
“But as soon as I got all the information, I discovered the research, I was very, very happy,” he continued.
Independence: Perry said he was sharing the information with the community, but still encourages people to ‘make their own choices’
Perry said he was sharing the information with the community, but he still encourages people to ‘make their own choices’.
Vaccine COVID-19 and the black community: A special by Tyler Perry will air Thursday, January 28 at 9 pm at BET.
Currently, cases in the U.S. are decreasing, but the number of deaths remains high, recently averaging more than 3,000 per day.
And all of this is further complicated by the appearance of genetic variants of the virus.
President Biden is trying to increase the vaccination effort across the country.
On Tuesday, he announced that his government was close to buying another 200 million doses of vaccine from Moderna and Pfizer.