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
professor. susan joins me by phone now. thank you for joining me. caller: you re welcome. let me find out how you came upon the information. caller: i was doing research on my book on the syphilis study. i was doing what historians do, which is go to archives and read dead people s mail. and i found the records in the pittsburgh university of pittsburgh archives of john c. cutler, the physician who did this study in guatemala. when you realized that 696 men and women were essentially used in this experiment, what did you think when you realized what erp reading and had researched was a reality. one thing i want to correct that bob bazell said. the study was to look at whether or not penicillin could be a cure. in some cases they were given syphilis and gonorrhea, they were also given penicillin to treat it. so this was an infecting study.