COVID-19 vaccine trials are happening all over the country, but they need more participants. According to a 2020 Pew Research study taken in May, 44% of Black people would not get a COVID-19 vaccine if it were available to them at that time. Researchers say getting them to participate in clinical trials is an even tougher sell. “It is difficult to get African-Americans to participate and I think this arises from the past experiences and injustices that have occurred like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment,” said Dr. Mona Wicks, Chairwoman of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at UT Health Science Center.
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