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Descendants of men from horrifying Tuskegee study want to calm virus vaccine fears


Descendants of men from horrifying Tuskegee study want to calm virus vaccine fears
David Montgomery
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Lillie Tyson Head, whose father, Freddie Lee Tyson, was in the Tuskegee syphilis study. She is president of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation.
Eighty-four-year-old Florine Edwards was thrilled to receive her coronavirus vaccination in Memphis in March. “When I hear people say, ‘Well, I’m not sure,’ I say, ‘You be sure, because this is important,’ ” she explains. The same goes for Lillie Tyson Head, 76, who received her second dose in March as well, near Roanoke: “I had no doubts about whether I was going to get it.” And if someone asks Leo Ware, 82, who was vaccinated the same month near Orlando, whether to get a vaccine, he’d say: “Definitely. Without hesitation.” ....

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Medical Racism, and the Memory of the Tuskegee Experiment Is Driving Vaccine Hesitancy


Vaccine Hesitancy and the Long Shadow of Racism in U.S. Health Care
Nearly a third of Black Americans are taking a wait-and-see approach to the Covid vaccines or will only take one if required. What’s driving this?
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As we rapidly approach the point where the Covid-19 vaccine is available to all those who want it, the key constraint on reaching a sufficiently high level of vaccinations to achieve herd immunity is the hesitancy of certain groups to get vaccinated. The latest survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation breaks them down. As one can see in the first chart, ten percent of Black adults refuse to get vaccinated which, fortunately, is down from 27 percent in October 2020 with seven percent saying they will only get vaccinated if forced to and another 24 percent reporting a wait-and-see attitude. Although a higher percentage of whites say they will refuse a Covid vaccination outright, a third fewer will get one only if requir ....

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