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Vaccine hesitancy among racial minorities likely due to history of untrustworthy medical practices, experts say - State of Reform


Vaccine hesitancy among racial minorities likely due to history of untrustworthy medical practices, experts say
Eli Kirshbaum | Feb 17, 2021
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The U.S. has an extensive history “shaking confidence in science and medicine” for racial minorities, according to Francisco Lucio, JD, associate dean at the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Arizona. He said this is an important backdrop for the considerable hesitation to receive the COVID-19 vaccine among minority communities.
 
 
We are seeing this unwillingness largely as a result of the history of structural racism in U.S. health care. This “scope of medical abuse” includes the gynecologist James Marion Sims experimenting on black slave women in the 1800s, the sterilization of Native women without informed consent as a form of birth control in the 1970s and a history of eugenics practices that disproportionately impacted women of color. He also listed t ....

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