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Descendants of men from horrifying Tuskegee study want to calm virus vaccine fears David Montgomery © Alycee Byrd/For The Washington Post Lillie Tyson Head, whose father, Freddie Lee Tyson, was in the Tuskegee syphilis study. She is president of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation. Eighty-four-year-old Florine Edwards was thrilled to receive her coronavirus vaccination in Memphis in March. “When I hear people say, ‘Well, I’m not sure,’ I say, ‘You be sure, because this is important,’ ” she explains. The same goes for Lillie Tyson Head, 76, who received her second dose in March as well, near Roanoke: “I had no doubts about whether I was going to get it.” And if someone asks Leo Ware, 82, who was vaccinated the same month near Orlando, whether to get a vaccine, he’d say: “Definitely. Without hesitation.”

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