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about participating in its COVID-19 vaccine trial.
Tribal officials asked the company to go through its media team, meet face-to-face or arrange an online video meeting, Hualapai Chairman Damon Clarke said. The small community of 2,300 registered members was fearful of becoming mere test subjects in a larger experiment.
In the end, Moderna representatives did nothing outside of email and, with so little information and no trusted relationship with the company, Clarke said Hualapai leaders declined to participate. It s just like being hesitant about having someone come in and saying, Can I borrow your vehicle for a week? I mean that s how we take it, he said. We re protective of our nation.
New website debunks COVID-19 vaccine myths and urges hesitant Latinos to get the shot Daniel Gonzalez, Arizona Republic
When Arizona State University professor Gilberto Lopez and colleagues surveyed 600 Latinos in Arizona and California, they found that those in rural areas were more likely to be hesitant to get vaccinated against COVID-19 than those in suburban and urban areas.
The survey found that Latinos hesitant to get the vaccine were more likely to believe certain myths about COVID-19 vaccines, above all that getting vaccinated can cause infertility.
The findings troubled Lopez, who studies health inequities and disparities at ASU s School of Transborder Studies.