Stop bullying persons who refuse to take the vaccine
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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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Some vaccines have arrived
By Vivian Blevins - Contributing columnist
With the arrival of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, questions are being asked: “Should I take it or not? Should I wait for the Moderna vaccine? Should I wait to see how those who’ve taken it in the U.K. are faring? Should I pay attention to all the messages on Facebook? (African American author Roxanne Gay recently chastised actor Letitia Wright for sharing misinformation via a video about vaccines and COVID-19: “Thinking for yourself doesn’t mean you’re right. Promoting anti-vaccine propaganda and shrouding it in intellectual curiosity is asinine. And dangerous.”) Will my family physician’s advice be reliable? What if I don’t have a family physician? What if all of this is a political stunt, a scam? Am I better off by just having the disease? If I get vaccinated, will I still need to wear a mask, practice social distancing, and wash my hands frequently? If I’m careful, can I gather with friend
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.