Maddie, Sifai here. Today, we've got an episode for you from our friends at the NPR

Code Switch podcast. In this episode, the unpacked skepticism, some black people have towards the

COVID vaccines, and how big of a role one infamous medical study actually plays in that skepticism.

If you haven't checked out Code Switch yet, this is an opportunity to start. Trust me,

it is a great show. We're back tomorrow with more shortwave, NPR's Daily Science Podcast.

I'm Jean W. I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji, and this is Code Switch. From NPR. So Shireen,

yes, that's a long go. Mama, I've got her first dose of the COVID vaccine. Congratulations,

Miss Jeanette. Yeah, that was very happy for her. It was like a calm night. Her's a lot. And she

got it after standing in a long line at Temple University, which is a North Philly. She was in this

long line. And a dude near the front of the line saw her, you know, this 70-something-role black woman

waiting for the COVID vaccine shot just before they closed down that line at the end of the day.

And so we saw her standing there and he was like, yo, come with me. And he told the people

giving out the shot that this lady, who we didn't know, right, was mom, that she was this plus one.

So first, the brother who got my mama along, like I appreciate you for that. Thank you very much.

Yes. That's wonderful. The flip side of that is like, yo, isn't this kind of

a haphazard? Like I felt, you know, like some type of way about the way that was organized,

right? Like this can't be the way we're doing this, right? Well, I have an anecdote too that

kind of shows the haphazardness of all of this. Nico and I, that's my husband, we, you know,

that gene, but for those of you who don't, we got this text a couple of weeks ago from a friend

who had heard from a volunteer at a vaccine site or a vaccination site that extra vaccines

were being given away that couldn't be re refrigerated. Right. So we rushed down there and we got

there and we were just like, what is the deal? There's this really long line. What's happening?

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