Descendants of syphilis experiment at Tuskegee caution using study as reason not to get COVID vaccine
By Sydney Cameron
Tuskegee experiment descendants encourage vaccinations
As health officials work to combat COVID-19, there is a group speaking out directly to the African American community.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - As health officials across the country are working to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, one group is speaking out directly to the African-American community.
Descendants of the infamous syphilis experiment at Tuskegee are encouraging Black people to get the vaccine despite many Black people citing the experiment as a reason why they do not trust doctors or the vaccine.
Descendants of syphilis experiment at Tuskegee caution using study as reason not to get COVID vaccine
Tuskegee experiment descendants encourage vaccinations
As health officials work to combat COVID-19, there is a group speaking out directly to the African American community.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - As health officials across the country are working to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, one group is speaking out directly to the African-American community.
Descendants of the infamous syphilis experiment at Tuskegee are encouraging Black people to get the vaccine despite many Black people citing the experiment as a reason why they do not trust doctors or the vaccine.
Retired nurse on mission to urge people of color to get COVID-19 vaccine
Feb 18, 2021 catholic news service
Joyce Christian, along with her husband, Will, walk with their grandchildren in Somerville, Tenn., in this undated photo. She is a retired nurse who encourages African Americans and other people of color to get the COVID-19 vaccine. (Credit: CNS photo/Karen Pulfer Focht.)
Joyce Christian understands firsthand why many Black people and other people of color are hesitant and mistrust the medical community. Her father, Freddie Lee Tyson, was unknowingly a part of the U. S. Public Health Services Syphilis Study at Tuskegee in Alabama.
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