Health Equity

Winning Trust for a Vaccine Means Confronting Medical Racism

Abstract: The US has a long history of abusing minorities for pharmaceutical profit. Messaging for a Covid-19 inoculation will have to overcome that past.

Publication: Wired

Date Published: November 2, 2020

Author(s): Maryn McKenna

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