Using my family’s dark history to teach about vaccines

December 13, 2022

How do you ask a community to trust medicine when history has given them many reasons not to?

It’s a dilemma US nurse Victoria Baptiste has to deal with every day as she travels around Baltimore County, Maryland, in a mobile clinic, administering Covid vaccines.

Over the past couple of years, one question has kept coming up, especially from her black patients. We’ve been experimented on in the past – how can we trust this treatment?

Often they’ve come across inaccurate posts on Facebook or Twitter. But her black patients’ fears have not just come from online misinformation – their mistrust began long ago.

“When they start to tell their stories they say, ‘RememberĀ TuskegeeĀ and Henrietta Lacks, they always experiment on people of colour,'” she says.

Read more at BBC.

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