PHILADELPHIA — In the bustling corridor outside Northeast High School’s gymnasium, a 15-year-old told one of Philadelphia’s best-known COVID-19 vaccination advocates he had doubts about what she was promoting.
“I don’t know,” the boy said. “I don’t know about the vaccine.”
His grandfather didn’t want him to get it, he told Ala Stanford, pediatric surgeon and founder of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, dedicated to ensuring equity in the vaccination effort. If he did, he said, he might have his video games taken away.
