The current effects of a history filled with unethical medical experiments performed on marginalized groups.
Local health officials are concerned that some members of the Black community are hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Laura Reed is a Certified Nurse Practitioner at Mercy Health in Springfield. At a United Black Community Coalition meeting on Wednesday, Reed said that some of this hesitancy comes from the history of unethical medical experiments that were performed on certain cultural groups.
“A lot of times people are worried because minority groups in the past were always used for treatment experiments, she said. And I think some people, they hear that carried on from their parents and they carry it on down.”