As Many Ready for COVID-19 Vaccine Approval in U.S., Historically-Based Feelings of Mistrust Persist for Some

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In a recent piece for medical journal The Lancet, professor of medicine Dr. Kimberly Manning shares her experience of being a Black enrollee in a COVID-19 vaccine trial. A graduate of Tuskegee University, Manning also writes about the historical roots of mistrust between African Americans and the U.S. healthcare system, in part due to the horrific Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment on Black men from 1932 to 1972. While the majority of Americans now say they would get the vaccine, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, Black Americans are the least inclined to get vaccinated compared to other racial groups. As the COVID-19 vaccine nears FDA approval in the U.S., we talk to Manning about the challenges of building trust with different communities. We'll also learn more about the findings of the Pew report on whether people intend to get the vaccine and what factors inform their thinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.3	Coming up on forum, we'll learn about a new Pew report that finds the share of Americans
1:05.5	who say they plan to get a coronavirus vaccine has grown steadily since September.
1:10.7	And Dr. Kimberly Manning joins us.
1:12.9	She wrote about her experience as a black enrollee in a COVID-19 vaccine trial for the Lancet recently.
1:18.2	A graduate of Tuskegee University, Manning says mistrust among some African Americans of medical research
1:24.4	is far more complicated and goes beyond the horrific Tuskegee untreated syphilis
1:29.2	study. She joins us after this news.
1:56.0	This This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim. How are you feeling about taking the COVID-19 vaccine? Sign me up or mixed feelings? Governor Newsom tweeted yesterday that California is expecting more than 600,000 doses of the
2:01.4	Moderna vaccine in the next few weeks and the first shipment of Pfizer's vaccine next week.
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