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Civil rights icon on vaccine frustrations: ‘God despatched me an angel named Ashley’

Mar 6, 2021

CHESAPEAKE, Va (WAVY) - Dr. Patricia "Pat" Turner registered with the City of Norfolk, Virginia and contacted three churches.All of this was an attempt to get a potentially life-saving coronavirus vaccine - and it failed.…

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Vaccine frustrations from Norfolk civil rights icon: I don’t know what’s incorrect with me

Mar 5, 2021

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) - They are known as the "Norfolk 17" but now there are only nine left including the 76-year-old Dr. Patricia Turner.The civil rights icon, mathematician, former nurse and veteran educator has worked in a…