Many Black Americans aren’t rushing to get the COVID-19 vaccine – a long history of medical abuse suggests why

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A great-granddaughter of Henrietta Lacks poses with her portrait. The HeLa cell line used in medical research originated with a tissue sample from Lacks. Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they’d get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The proportion of Black people who said they’ll probably or definitely take the shot has risen over time – but even by mid-January, with two COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use in the U.S., only 35% of Black survey respondents said they’d get it as soon as they could, or already had gotten the shot.

Link: https://theconversation.com/many-black-americans-arent-rushing-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine-a-long-history-of-medical-abuse-suggests-why-152368