“It’s not something that I trust right now,” says Bland, 50, who worries about how quickly the COVID-19 vaccines were developed. AdvertisementThe irony hasn’t escaped organizers of a vaccination campaign at the 110-bed hospital, which until recently was overflowing with COVID-19 patients. South Side neighborhoods lagged behind wealthier white ones in getting COVID-19 testing sites and recent city data show COVID-19 vaccinations in Black and Latino residents are far behind white residents. She acknowledged “centuries of medical injustice” against Black Americans but said COVID-19 vaccines resulted from years of solid research. Many workers “have not forgotten about those studies where they used us as experiments,” McGuire said, including the infamous Tuskegee research on Black patients with syphilis.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 15, 2021 16:50 UTC