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Fueled by a History of Mistreatment, Black Americans Distrust the New COVID-19 Vaccines Time 12/28/2020 Dezimey Kum © Jeff Gritchen MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images Nurse Michael Lowman gets his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from nurse practitioner Christie Aiello at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA, on Dec. 16, 2020. When a COVID-19 vaccine becomes widely available to Americans, Brianna Clarke says she won’t be taking it. “I don’t trust the vaccine,” the 22-year-old says. “I think it’s too soon to have a vaccine.” Clarke, who lives in Willingboro, N.J., is among a significant number of Black Americans who are skeptical of the healthcare industry in general and, critically, the COVID-19 vaccines recently developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, more specifically.

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