Tyler Perry gets a COVID-19 vaccine for a BET special

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COVID-19 Vaccine and the Black Community: A Tyler Perry Special, airing Thursday, aims to de-stigmatize vaccinations amid the ongoing pandemic, especially in the Black community. "If you look at our history in this country, with the Tuskegee experiment, Henrietta Lacks and things like that, it raises flags for us as African American people," Perry said on CBS This Morning. "So I understand why there's a healthy skepticism about the vaccine."