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    As more LA County Black and Latino men get the COVID-19 vaccine, distrust lingers

    Drew Bullock has heard the same concerns over and over from men unsure about COVID-19 vaccines. Concerns about possible risk to their immune systems and over how fast the vaccines were developed. Concerns referencing the Tuskegee experiment, when treatment for syphilis was withheld from hundreds of Black men in Alabama. “I think when it comes to specifically Black men and our distrust in the ...
    by Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times Nov 12, 2021 6 minutes

    Drew Bullock has heard the same concerns over and over from men unsure about COVID-19 vaccines.

    Concerns about possible risk to their immune systems and over how fast the vaccines were developed. Concerns referencing the Tuskegee experiment, when treatment for syphilis was withheld from hundreds of Black men in Alabama.

    “I think when it comes to specifically Black men and our distrust in the medical industry, by not getting vaccinated we’re causing a Tuskegee 2.0,” Bullock said.

    Aiming to be “funny but accurate,” he decided to combat the misinformation and outright falsehoods that he found so alarming on social media by turning his YouTube page — which has 26,000 subscribers — into a source for vaccine skeptics.

    After an extremely slow start, Los Angeles County in recent months has made significant progress in vaccination rates among Black and Latino males age 12 and older. Between May 9 and Oct. 24, the most recent data available, the percentage of vaccinated Black males in those age groups rose from 36% to 54% and from 39% to

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