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Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say
It’s not an ‘excuse’ for current medical racism.
For months, journalists, politicians and health officials including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci have invoked the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to explain why Black Americans are more hesitant than white Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine.
“It’s ‘Oh, Tuskegee, Tuskegee, Tuskegee,’ and it’s mentioned every single time,” said Karen Lincoln, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California and founder of Advocates for African American Elders. “We make these assumptions that it’s Tuskegee. We don’t ask people.”
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It s not Tuskegee Current medical racism fuels Black Americans vaccine hesitancy
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