Vaccine Hesitancy Is a Scapegoat for Structural Racism

Giselle M. Corbie-Smith

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Vaccine hesitancy and mistrust of medicine and science dominate current discourse around disparities in who is currently receiving COVID-19 vaccines, a potentially lifesaving prevention strategy.Mistrust of medicine and science is based in a long and sordid history of unethical practice and research on African American, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian American populations in this country.[1][2][3][4] However, current concerns about vaccine uptake are a glaring symptom of a much deeper problem-structural racism.The underlying condition of structural racism is a significant contributor

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