COVID-19 vaccine trials are underway in Louisiana, but there’s a national concern that these clinical trials won’t reflect the country’s racial and ethnic make-up.
That’s especially problematic given that COVID-19 has disproportionately infected and killed Black and Latino people — and it’s prompted the presidents of both Dillard and Xavier universities to participate in a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial run by Ochsner. They also released a joint letter urging more racial and ethnic minorities to sign up.
For more, reporter Rosemary Westwood spoke with C. Reynold Verret, the president of Xavier University.
