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Prognosis: Misconception

Doubt: Getting Out of the Boat

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1838 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We meet Dr. Timothy Sloan, a pastor of a black church in Texas, who is torn over how to talk to his congregants about the Covid-19 vaccines. He is skeptical about getting one, and knows the rest of his church is, too. But, the vaccines could also be a lifeline. Black Americans have died at about twice the rate of white Americans from the virus. So while there may be trust issues with the vaccines in communities of color, they’re also the communities that need vaccines the most. Dr. Sloan goes on a journey to find out who can help him learn more about the vaccines, and how the medical establishment can win back some of the trust it has lost over generations of mistreatment.

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Over the past few months, you've probably heard a lot about the Tuskegee experiment.

0:37.5

In the 1930s, researchers began a study of 600 black men with syphilis.

0:44.6

Scientists told them they were being treated for, quote, bad blood.

0:50.1

That was not the truth.

0:53.1

They wanted to study what would happen if syphilis went untreated.

0:57.1

The study ran for 40 years.

1:00.8

The men never received the proper treatment to cure their illness.

1:06.1

Or you might also know the story of Henrietta Lex, a black woman who underwent cancer treatment in the 1950s in a segregated hospital.

1:15.4

She died, but researchers cloned her cancer cells.

1:20.6

These cells became the first immortalized human cell line and led to countless medical breakthroughs.

1:28.5

But Lax did not consent to this.

1:31.5

And while drug manufacturers profit off of them, her family had no idea and continued to live in poverty for decades.

1:40.7

Or maybe you've heard about J. Mary and Sims, the so-called father of modern gydencology.

1:48.0

He experimented on enslaved black women without anesthesia.

1:52.0

There was a statue of him in Central Park until 2018.

1:57.0

Over the past year, these events have become a sort of shorthand for why some black people don't trust the COVID vaccines.

2:07.9

And of course, this legacy of abuse is part of the reason for that mistrust.

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