To Be Young, Gifted, and COVID-Free Q&A: Are communities of color and particularly their youth as suspicious of the medical establishment and these vaccination efforts as some media outlets have suggested?

“Young, Gifted, and COVID-Free” was a town-hall style event held on October 14, 2021. Hosted by Alive & In Color in partnership with Georgia Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 (CEAL), young adults, along with medical experts and youth advocates, shared solutions that leveraged the collective power of our most promising voices to create COVID-free futures.

Here, Saadia Khizer MD, MPH, Clinic Director, Morehouse School of Medicine, shares her professional insight for the following question: “Are communities of color and particularly their youth as suspicious of the medical establishment and these vaccination efforts as some media outlets have suggested?”