Overheard in the hospital, a woman from kitchen staff speaking with a doctor, both Black. Somehow the topic of #CovidVaccine came up. The doctor asked the woman if she’d gotten the vaccine yet. She said no and that she wasn’t going to. 1/
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Her response was that when He wants you to come home, there’s nothing you can do about it. I suppose, from a Christian point of view, that’s true, but I also learned years ago, when I was still a devoted Catholic, that God helps those who help themselves. 3/
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Leaving our seemingly deformed theologies aside, this little overheard snippet of conversation as I was passing through reminded me that vaccine hesitancy is not just a problem among white, Trump-living evangelicals. It’s a huge problem among people of color as well. 4/
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I was further reminded that Blacks are much more severely affected by
#COVID19 when a patient’s relative told me she know several people who had died of COVID, including a healthy man in his 50s. I know a fair number of people who got symptomatic COVID, but no one who died. 5/Show this thread -
I know, I know, this is anecdotal personal experience and thus unreliable and potentially unrepresentative, but it’s in line with what the data show. The bottom line is that we have a lot of work to do to win the trust of people like this woman. We need to do better. 6/6
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Christian churches has done a terrible job at making people feel comfortable with modern medicine and using it to the fullest extent. Instead, many churches have preached the opposite, which is how this woman defines her faith. If you have faith why do you have to prove it?
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If they are Catholic, I remind them of Sirach 38:1 "Make friends with the doctor, for he is essential to you; God has also established him in his profession" (Pharmacists make a cameo in verse 8)
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