ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Descendants of the Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were lied to as part of an infamous study on syphilis, are addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
They don’t want that dark moment in history to stop others from getting the shot, saying a lot of the mistrust is rooted in myths, and they want to change that.
A group of men decades ago did not give consent or even know they were part of an unthinkable study conducted by the United States Public Health Service.
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They were only told they had “bad blood.”
All these years later, the study still keeps some in the Black community from trusting public health campaigns such as the COVID-19 vaccine.
But these descendants say a lot of the mistrust is based on myths.
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