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In the first months after the vaccine rollout, Black Americans were far less likely than white Americans to be vaccinated. In addition to the difficulty of obtaining shots in their communities, their hesitancy was fueled by a powerful combination of general mistrust of the government and medical institutions, and misinformation over the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.
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Why Many Black Americans Changed Their Minds About COVID Shots
Why Many Black Americans Changed Their Minds About COVID Shots
TUSKEGEE, Ala. — By the time vaccines for the coronavirus were introduced late last year, the pandemic had taken two of Lucenia Williams Dunn’s close friends. Still, Dunn, a former mayor of Tuskegee, contemplated for months whether to be inoculated. It was a complicated consideration, framed by...
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Audra D. S. Burch and Amy Schoenfeld Walker
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