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Virus Outbreak-Vaccinating Tuskegee (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) 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.
Now, the onetime mayor of the town immortalized as the home of the infamous “Tuskegee syphilis study” is wary of getting inoculated against COVID-19. Among other things, she s suspicious of the government promoting a vaccine that was developed in record time when it can t seem to conduct adequate virus testing or consistently provide quality rural health care.
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Feb 2, 2021
Nurse Marianne Williams administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a woman as a coworker looks on at the county health department in Tuskegee, Ala., Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. The clinic has yet to reach its maximum capacity for immunizing people in the mostly Black city, the site of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, that ended in 1972. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves
TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) 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.
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