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Beatrice Evans knocked on every door in her 100-unit apartment complex on B Street SE. As the president of the Triangle View Apartments tenant association, she is the ideal messenger to share information about the COVID-19 vaccine.
“You got people who want it, and then you got people, those hesitant people,” Evans, 67, says of her neighbors.
Nearly every Triangle View resident is Black. Those who are wary of getting vaccinated understand America’s history of medically mistreating Black people. In the 1930s, federal health officials recruited Black men, many of them poor, to participate in what is now known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. The men were only treated with placebos despite a treatment being available and man