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Mississippi Edition - 5/19/2022 - NAACP's COVID Discrimination Lawsuit

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Wilbert Marshall, 71, looks at his shot card after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine from Melissa Banks, right, a nurse at the Aaron E. Henry Community Health Service Center in Clarksdale, Miss., Wednesday, April 7, 2021.
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

 It’s been over a year since the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved for emergency use. The vaccine rollout had a bumpy start, but the NAACP in a new lawsuit against the Mississippi Department of Health says low-income communities of color were actively left out in the beginning.