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Thompson listens as public health officials implore Black people to move beyond their skepticism and have faith in medical ingenuity. Thompson sees Black doctors, like John Wesley Patton III, enthusiastically publicize the moment they get vaccinated and stress the importance of inoculation. The suffering the deadly virus inflicts is “no joke,” the anesthesiologist wrote in a January Instagram caption. “Trust science. Don’t lose hope. Stay together. We’re gonna get through this.” But even if they come from other Black people like Patton, the words don’t penetrate Thompson’s men...

COVID vaccine skepticism lurks in Alabama as legacy of racist Tuskegee Study Nancy Dillon The enduring – and understandable – legacy of the racist Tuskegee Study is sizable skepticism toward COVID-19 vaccines among Black people in eastern Alabama, local leaders say. The coronavirus immunization campaign in the city of Tuskegee and surrounding Macon County has gotten off to a shaky start because residents remember how the government used unsuspecting Black men in the town as guinea pigs between 1932 and 1972, they told the Associated Press. Men in the Tuskegee Study were to...

Nurse Marianne Williams administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a woman as a coworker looks on at the county health department in Tuskegee, Alabama.. The clinic has yet to reach its maximum capacity for immunizing people in the mostly Black city, site of the infamous “Tuskegee syphilis study” that ended in 1972. AP TUSKEGEE, Alabama — Lucenia Dunn spent the early days of the coronavirus pandemic encouraging people to wear masks and keep a safe distance from each other in Tuskegee, a mostly Black city where the government once used unsuspecting African American men as guinea pigs in a study o...