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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

In 1956, two few teenagers and young adults were getting the new polio vaccine, so officials

turned to Elvis Presley.

The entertainer got a polio vaccine on the Ed Sullivan Show, an endorsement that helped

the vaccine rates go up and eliminate the disease from the country.

Six decades later,

history seems to be repeating itself. The first batch of the Pfizer-COVID-19 vaccine began distribution yesterday. Vaccinations will begin at 145 sites this morning, with another 425 sites on Tuesday and 66 on Wednesday.

V-Day has already occurred in the UK, where a 90-year-old woman became the first person to receive an approved COVID-19 vaccine in the Western world.

Help against the pandemic cannot come soon enough. The singer Charlie

Pride, once called the Jackie Robinson of Country, died of coronavirus-related complications Saturday.

I once shared a program with him and could not have been more impressed with his humility and grace.

His death reminds us that this virus is a threat

to every one of us, regardless of wealth or status. However, as with the polio vaccine decades ago,

many are reluctant to take a COVID-19 vaccine. According to a recent survey, about a quarter of

U.S. adults say they will not get such a vaccine.

Another quarter are not sure they want to be vaccinated.

And 50% of white evangelicals and 59% of black Protestants say they won't get the vaccine.

Black Americans are especially unsure about the vaccine.

This is due in part to the continuing impact of the horrific Tuskegee syphilis study in which black males were refused treatment for syphilis.

The use of Henrietta lax's cancer cells without her permission and the legacy of J. Marion Sims,

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