SASKATOON Scientists from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico are urging for more diversity in vaccine clinical trials after their new study exposed a decadeâs worth of disparity from 2011 to 2020, and could have impacted vaccination rates among minorities. The research, published Friday in medical journal JAMA Network Open, found many U.S.-based clinical trials failed to report demographic information and the ones that did frequently underrepresented Black people, Indigenous peoples, Latinxs, and people over the age of 65. This collaborative work highlights a problem that s plagued the scientific community for too long,â Dr. Steve Pergam, one of the authors of the study said in a press release.
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