Ray Talks Live

Tuskegee Experiment & COVID-19 Vaccine

March 13, 2021 Ray Talks Season 2 Episode 6
Ray Talks Live
Tuskegee Experiment & COVID-19 Vaccine
Show Notes

In this episode I review the controversial Tuskegee Experiment from 1932 that involved 600 Black men from Macon County, Alabama, and the secretive experiment on syphilis by the United States Public Health Service.  Learn what was the Tuskegee Experiment and the apology issued by President Bill Clinton in May 1997 for this experiment.  I also discussed why there is distrust from the Black community towards the medical system.  Plus, why is there such a large discrepancy in who has been vaccinated here in the the State of Florida.

***Photo Courtesy: Tuskegee National Archives

References:
"Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1981) by James H. Jones
Centers for Disease Control and Protection
Florida Department of Health   March 12, 2021 Vaccination Report
No, the Tuskegee Study Is Not the Top Reason Some Black Americans Questions the COVID-19 Vaccine  KQED.org
A Generation of Bad Blood   The Atlantic
"You've got bad blood": The horror of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment   The Washington Post



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