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Systemic racism and trauma feeds vaccine hesitancy for Black Canadians The National2 months ago 5:42 Despite being disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, many Black Canadians are hesitant to take a vaccine. Local governments have made commitments to build trust, but that work is just beginning.5:42
Some vaccines have arrived By Vivian Blevins - Contributing columnist With the arrival of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, questions are being asked: “Should I take it or not? Should I wait for the Moderna vaccine? Should I wait to see how those who’ve taken it in the U.K. are faring? Should I pay attention to all the messages on Facebook? (African American author Roxanne Gay recently chastised actor Letitia Wright for sharing misinformation via a video about vaccines and COVID-19: “Thinking for yourself doesn’t mean you’re right. Promoting anti-vaccine propaganda and shrouding it i...
Family of Tuskegee Syphilis Study participant say they’ll take COVID-19 vaccine © ABC Lillie Tyson Head pictured with family photos. Lillie Tyson Head and her daughter, Carmen Head Thornton, have reason to be skeptical about the COVID-19 vaccine. After all, it was Head’s father, Freddie Lee Tyson, who was unknowingly recruited into the now-infamous Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. A sharecropper in Alabama in 1932, Tyson was one of 623 Black men recruited for the U.S. Public Health study at the Tuskegee Institute. The study was meant to record the natural progression of syphilis infectio...
Some vaccines have arrived By Vivian Blevins - Contributing columnist With the arrival of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, questions are being asked: “Should I take it or not? Should I wait for the Moderna vaccine? Should I wait to see how those who’ve taken it in the U.K. are faring? Should I pay attention to all the messages on Facebook? (African American author Roxanne Gay recently chastised actor Letitia Wright for sharing misinformation via a video about vaccines and COVID-19: “Thinking for yourself doesn’t mean you’re right. Promoting anti-vaccine propaganda and shrouding it i...