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In Tuskegee, Painful History Shadows Efforts To Vaccinate African Americans
A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous 20th century U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease.
February 21, 2021, 6:54 AM
A participant in the Tuskegee Study in the 1930s. A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous study.
A lingering mistrust of the medical system makes some Black Americans more hesitant to sign up for COVID-19 vaccines. It has played out in early data that show a stark disparity in whom is getting shots in this country more than 60% going to white people, and less than 6% to African Americans. The mistrust is rooted in history, including the infamous U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease.
Overcoming vaccine skepticism in shadow of Tuskegee Experiment a tall task in Michigan’s Black communities
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Demali Beard, a registered nurse, is given the COVID-19 vaccine by syringe, administered by Leslie Rush, department manager at 10-West at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, on Thursday, December 17, 2020. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
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Detroit’s white mayor recently acknowledged the federal government has tricked Black Americans before.
He then propped up the left sleeve of his yellow shirt and was pricked in the upper arm with a needle that injected the emergency coronavirus vaccine.
This is different, Mayor Mike Duggan said. “It’s the right thing.”
To combat vaccine hesitancy in minority communities we must address past wrongs: Surgeon General Anjalee Khemlani
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare health inequities around the country, with African Americans disproportionately affected by COVID-19. And studies show African Americans and people of color are leery of getting vaccinated against the disease as the result of past mistreatment, citing the notorious Tuskegee experiment that turned Black men with syphilis into medical guinea pigs.
“We know that a lack of trust has been a major cause of reluctance, especially in communities of color, and that lack of trust is not without reason as the Tuskegee study occurred within many of our own lifetimes,” Surgeon General Jerome Adams said last week.