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Mistrust of Government is Significant Roadblock to Black American Vaccination Efforts
🇺🇸💉 The rollout of the first approved COVID-19 vaccine this week is raising questions of when the game-changing inoculations will be ready for everyday Americans.
But for communities of color, especially Black communities, that carry a deep-seated mistrust of the government, the question is if they will take the vaccine at all.
The mistrust isn’t surprising. From the early to mid-20th century, tens of thousands of nonwhite women were sterilized by the government.
For four decades, the government ran what is known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the deep South exclusively on Black men. Researchers never received informed consent from the participants, nor offered them treatment for the disease even after penicillin became the main form of treatment for syphilis. The experiment wasn’t stopped until 1972. @COVID19Up SOURCE
🇺🇸💉 The rollout of the first approved COVID-19 vaccine this week is raising questions of when the game-changing inoculations will be ready for everyday Americans.
But for communities of color, especially Black communities, that carry a deep-seated mistrust of the government, the question is if they will take the vaccine at all.
The mistrust isn’t surprising. From the early to mid-20th century, tens of thousands of nonwhite women were sterilized by the government.
For four decades, the government ran what is known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the deep South exclusively on Black men. Researchers never received informed consent from the participants, nor offered them treatment for the disease even after penicillin became the main form of treatment for syphilis. The experiment wasn’t stopped until 1972. @COVID19Up SOURCE