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More than 44 thousand people worldwide volunteered for the Pfizer study; half got the new vaccine and half got a placebo. One percent of those volunteers are indigenous Americans, among them, Derrick Leslie. He works in emergency operations for the White Mountain Apache tribe. Having a front row seat to all of the heartache, the pain, and all the suffering that this virus has caused my people … this is really my way of contributing to the greater good, Leslie says.
But Leslie’s family didn’t see it that way. They told him the vaccine was dangerous, and the people behind it couldn’t be trusted. Leslie tried to ease their fears. The more opportunities for indigenous people to be included in research, the healthier world we’ll have, he says. People will always be scared until you show them differently.