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A toxic mix of inadequate health care, unequal vaccine distribution and hesitancy to get the shots means trouble for Black communities, wrote health policy fellow Peter Hotez — unless a plan is devised to prevent a potential surge in deaths and protracted illnesses. 

Is there anything you should or shouldn't do before getting vaccinated? Baker Institute fellow Peter Hotez answered some common questions. 

“If we didn’t have these variants looming,” we would be in a good place, said health policy fellow Peter Hotez. If those variants take over by spring, “as many of us are predicting,” he said, “it changes everything. Now, we really have to vaccinate the American population by late spring, early summer.”

Health policy fellow Peter Hotez discussed vaccine skepticism, the politicization of vaccines and how the government can effectively convey public health information.

Houston's COVID-19 case count recently surpassed 100,000, but the Thanksgiving surge has yet to peak, said health policy fellow Peter Hotez.