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Why some Black Americans are reluctant to getting the vaccine
According to Time magazine, 350,000 people registered for vaccine clinical trials. Only 10 percent identified as Black or Latino.
January 14, 2021 10:31 pm
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – From the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the case of Henrietta Lacks, African-Americans have endured years of medical racism.
“The CDC in particular hasn’t given black people much reason to trust them,” George Washington Carver Multicultural Collaborative’s Ishma Valenti said. “The CDC has repeatedly apologized for these catastrophes done, these scientific experiments done on black people without their knowledge, but they haven’t ever switched their policies or made right because they continue to be caught doing the same thing.”