Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say. It’s Not An ‘Excuse’ For Current Medical Racism

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It’s the health inequities of today that Maxine Toler, 72, hears about when she asks her friends and neighbors in LA what they think about the vaccine. Toler is president of her city’s senior advocacy council and her neighborhood block club. She says she and most of the other Black seniors she talks with want the vaccine, but are having trouble getting it. And that alone is sowing mistrust, she says.

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