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Descendants of men from horrifying Tuskegee study want to calm virus vaccine fears
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Family of Tuskegee Syphilis Study participant say they ll take COVID-19 vaccine but understand the distrust
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Family of Tuskegee Syphilis Study participant say they’ll take COVID-19 vaccine © ABC Lillie Tyson Head pictured with family photos. Lillie Tyson Head and her daughter, Carmen Head Thornton, have reason to be skeptical about the COVID-19 vaccine. After all, it was Head’s father, Freddie Lee Tyson, who was unknowingly recruited into the now-infamous Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. A sharecropper in Alabama in 1932, Tyson was one of 623 Black men recruited for the U.S. Public Health study at the Tuskegee Institute. The study was meant to record the natural progression of syphilis infection in Black men, but the researchers didn’t tell those who signed on. Tyson, who had congenital syphilis, was only told he’d be receiving free health care.
Descendant of the infamous syphilis study weighs in on COVID-19 vaccine
By: Jessica Larche
and last updated 2020-12-17 10:48:59-05
WIRTZ, Va. - There is a deep-rooted distrust surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine for some people, especially in the Black community.
The skepticism is centered around past evils approved by the United States government involving Black people, particularly the U.S. Public Health Serviceâs âStudy of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Maleâ at the Tuskegee Institute.
âThey wanted the men to die so that they could figure out how syphilis affected their bodies,â said Lillie Tyson Head of Wirtz, Virginia, a descendant of a participant in the study. âThey were human beings. They deserved the dignity and the respect and the care as every human being did.â