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Apparently, a lot of ppl don’t understand why many Black People would be skeptical about the current push for vaccinations. So let’s revisit exactly why. Known officially as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. They treated us like lab rats. The Tuskegee experiment began in 1932, at at a time when there was no known treatment for syphilis. After being recruited by the promise of free medical care, 600 men originally were enrolled in the project.
The participants were primarily sharecroppers, and many had never before visited a doctor. Doctors from the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), which was running the study, informed the participants—399 men with latent syphilis and a control group of 201 others who were free of the disease—they were being treated for bad blood, a term commonly used in the area at the time to refer to a variety of ailments. The men were monitored by health workers but only given placebos such as aspirin and mineral supplements, despite the fact penicillin became the recommended treatment for syphilis in 1947. PHS researchers convinced local physicians in Macon County not to treat the participants, and research was done at the Tuskegee Institute. In order to track the disease’s full progression, researchers provided no effective care as the men died, went blind or insane or experienced other severe health problems due to their untreated syphilis. Pure evil. And this is only one of many examples.
Now, I’m not saying anything specifically about anyone who is currently dedicating their lives to pushing for vaccinations. From a scientific standpoint, how else could we truly defeat the Coronavirus ? But I’m saying there’s a reason many Black People in particular are leery.
#coronavirus #covid19 #covid_19 #covid #tuskegeeexperiment
The participants were primarily sharecroppers, and many had never before visited a doctor. Doctors from the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), which was running the study, informed the participants—399 men with latent syphilis and a control group of 201 others who were free of the disease—they were being treated for bad blood, a term commonly used in the area at the time to refer to a variety of ailments. The men were monitored by health workers but only given placebos such as aspirin and mineral supplements, despite the fact penicillin became the recommended treatment for syphilis in 1947. PHS researchers convinced local physicians in Macon County not to treat the participants, and research was done at the Tuskegee Institute. In order to track the disease’s full progression, researchers provided no effective care as the men died, went blind or insane or experienced other severe health problems due to their untreated syphilis. Pure evil. And this is only one of many examples.
Now, I’m not saying anything specifically about anyone who is currently dedicating their lives to pushing for vaccinations. From a scientific standpoint, how else could we truly defeat the Coronavirus ? But I’m saying there’s a reason many Black People in particular are leery.
#coronavirus #covid19 #covid_19 #covid #tuskegeeexperiment
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