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Nurse Marianne Williams administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a woman as a coworker looks on at the county health department in Tuskegee, Alabama.. The clinic has yet to reach its maximum capacity for immunizing people in the mostly Black city, site of the infamous “Tuskegee syphilis study” that ended in 1972.
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TUSKEGEE, Alabama Lucenia Dunn spent the early days of the coronavirus pandemic encouraging people to wear masks and keep a safe distance from each other in Tuskegee, a mostly Black city where the government once used unsuspecting African American men as guinea pigs in a study of a sexually transmitted disease.