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Savannah Morning News Black Americans are more hesitant than whites to take the COVID vaccine. Reasons for that hit close to home in Savannah, and include a classified military operation in the 1950s that dropped hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes — mosquitoes that many believe were infected with disease — on Carver Village.  "They didn't tell anybody, and it happened," said Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Ellis. "And so that leaves some apprehension, especially when you have residents of that area who've been there since the '50s. And so my job as neighborhood president, ...

Black Vaccine Hesitancy Rooted in Mistrust, Doubts By Saundra Young Feb. 2, 2021 -- Black, Hispanic, and Native American people are about 4 times more likely to be hospitalized and nearly 3 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than white people. Yet African Americans have nearly the lowest rates of vaccination among any ethnic group. In fact, white Americans are being vaccinated at a rate 3 times higher than Black Americans. New CDC figures show that of those who have received at least the first dose of a vaccine, 5.4% are Black people, compared to 60% who are white people. According t...

Port Richmond added to city’s coronavirus priority neighborhoods Updated Feb 10, 2021; Posted Feb 01, 2021 Among all adults who received at least one coronavirus vaccine dose, only 11% were Black residents compared to 48% of white residents, 15% identified as Asian and 15% identified as Latino, city data shows. (Photo courtesy of Beacon Christian Community Health Center) Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Port Richmond is among the neighborhoods citywide that were hardest hit by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to new data from the city. Last year, the city identified 27 ...

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...

Some African Americans don’t trust the medical community Descendants of the Tuskegee experiment can’t embrace COVID-19 vaccines Local Descendants of Tuskegee Study not confident in COVID 19 Vaccines (Source: (WOIO Ronnie Duncan)) By Ronnie Duncan | January 29, 2021 at 7:47 PM EST - Updated January 29 at 8:06 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Blacks’ long history of not trusting medical research and studies has once again created a magnitude of questions regarding taking the COVID 19 vaccine. “My grandmother’s grandfather was from Tuskegee and he was part of the Tusk...