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Polling has consistently showed that African Americans are more skeptical of taking the #Covid_19 vaccine than other groups of people in America, but the reasons for this aren't just based on "older" instances of poor medical care. A thread.... fiercepharma.com/marketing/blac…
Yes there were the #TuskegeeUniversity Experiments with syphilis (1932- 1972) where African Americans were denied care so that a majority white healthcare system could 'learn' about the disease, but you don't have to go back that far en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_…
In the early 90's Maryland's government had serious discussions about forcing black women and girls on public assistance to take the birth control implant Norplant. Many took or were coerced into doing so without full understanding of the implications thecrimson.com/article/1993/2…
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