{"id":3423,"date":"2020-12-22T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T13:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=142285"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T13:31:33","slug":"black-critical-care-dr-taison-bell-of-uva-on-fighting-covid-racism-securing-fair-vaccine-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/22\/black-critical-care-dr-taison-bell-of-uva-on-fighting-covid-racism-securing-fair-vaccine-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Critical Care Dr. Taison Bell of UVA on Fighting COVID, Racism &amp; Securing Fair Vaccine Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2020\/12\/22\/dr_taison_bell_coronavirus\"><img style=\"float:right;padding-left:5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/23\/55923\/w320\/GUEST_TaisonBell.jpg\" alt=\"Guest taisonbell\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 40 countries have temporarily suspended some or all travel from the United Kingdom after British health officials announced a highly infectious variant of the novel coronavirus has been spreading in the country. South Africa has detected a similar variant. The new variant is believed to be 70% more contagious, but health experts say existing vaccines will still be effective against it. &#8220;What&#8217;s important to remember is that mutations will naturally happen in the course of a virus that&#8217;s in the community and circulating,&#8221; says Dr. Taison Bell, critical care and infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia. &#8220;It&#8217;s not unexpected to have these changes.&#8221; Bell also describes how he received the Pfizer-BioNTech <span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span>-19 vaccine earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/22\/black-critical-care-dr-taison-bell-of-uva-on-fighting-covid-racism-securing-fair-vaccine-access\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 countries have temporarily suspended some or all travel from the United Kingdom after British health officials announced a highly infectious variant of the novel coronavirus\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}