Louisville health care and church leaders on Saturday discussed historical traumas that are causing hesitancy and misinformation around COVID-19 vaccines in the Black community and the role of religion in the fight against the virus.
Over the past few months, as more COVID-19 vaccines have been rolled out, officials in Louisville and cities around the country have highlighted the importance of acknowledging and overcoming some longstanding mistrust and wariness or medical professionals by the Black community.
Some of the uneasiness, as Family Health Centers nurse practitioner Vivianne Griffiths noted during Saturday’s virtual talk, links to historical events like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which denied Black men treatment to study the disease’s progression, and the case of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cancer cells were used for research without her permission.
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