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[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/12/how-a-history-of-medical-racism-may-fuel-mistrust-in-covid-19-vaccines/ by John Letzing 9/12/20 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | [https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/12/how-a-history-of-medical-racism-may-fuel-mistrust-in-covid-19-vaccines/ by John Letzing 9/12/20 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | ||
Recent survey results in the US showed that just 42% of Black respondents would want to take a COVID-19 vaccine if it was available, compared with 61% of white respondents. The same survey results showed that Black respondents were far more likely to say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died from having the coronavirus (71%) than white respondents (49%). | Recent survey results in the US showed that just 42% of Black respondents would want to take a COVID-19 vaccine if it was available, compared with 61% of white respondents. The same survey results showed that Black respondents were far more likely to say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died from having the coronavirus (71%) than white respondents (49%). | ||
=====History: Racism and Exclusion in the United States===== | |||
[https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-history-racism-exclusion/ by POLITICS/HISTORY] | |||
This panel brings together three L.A. Times Book Prize finalists in history for a discussion that connects America’s past treatment of women, and indigenous and enslaved people with the present, taking a look at the people and the policies that have brought us to where we are today. Anna-lisa Grace Cox leads the conversation. | |||
