WASHINGTON, Aug 22 — Veteran American civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson was hospitalised after testing positive for Covid-19, despite having been vaccinated, representatives said Saturday.
“Doctors are currently monitoring the condition of both. Anyone who has been around either of them for the last five or six days should follow” the guidelines of the government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the brief statement added. He was the most prominent African American to run for the US presidency, with two unsuccessful attempts to capture the Democratic Party nomination in the 1980s, until Barack Obama took the office in 2009.
“For understandable reasons... African Americans harbour suspicions about scientists and vaccines,” the statement said, adding, however, that if they “decline to be vaccinated, all will remain at risk.”