Maurice Neely ate a hot dog Wednesday as he stood on the sidewalk of Hamilton Avenue near Collingwood Street in Detroit. A nurse approached him, and offered a COVID-19 vaccine.
Neely, 64, of Highland Park shook his head.
“I just have to read up on this. Do you know what I’m saying? I am from the old school. I’m not going to jump in the fire, jump in the skillet, and get burned up,” he said. “I still have questions.”
Neely had stopped by the Salvation Army’s Bed & Bread truck, which is like a soup kitchen on wheels, to get some lunch, and discovered that nurses from Central City Integrated Health, a Detroit-based federally qualified health center, were riding behind in a minivan-turned-vaccine-mobile, giving shots to people who might not be able to get them any other way.
