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Vaccine hesitancy or systemic racism? Jun 23,2021 - Last updated at Jun 23,2021 By Tian Johnson, Stephaun E. Wallace and Maaza Seyoum  JOHANNESBURG/SEATTLE/ADDIS ABABA When the United States began to roll out COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year, uptake in black communities lagged behind their white counterparts. Many assumed this was by choice: the history of medical abuses against them had supposedly left African-Americans mistrustful of the public-health intervention. A similar vaccine hesitancy has also purportedly hampered efforts to vaccinate African populations. But this narrative amounts to little more than obfuscation. To be sure, minority communities and developing-country populations may approach health services cautiously, and with good reason. From the gynecological experiments J. Marion Sims performed on enslaved black women in the 1800s to the four-decade-long Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which infected black men were observed but not treated, there is no shortag

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