This Body: Black America, hope, trust and Covid vaccine trials
▻https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2021/jul/29/this-body-black-america-hope-trust-and-covid-vaccine-trials-video
This Body explores the relationship between Black Americans and the medical industry. Sydney Hall, a participant in a coronavirus vaccine trial, grapples with questions of trust and the hope of saving lives while her community grapples with the historical fallout of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and contemporary abuses that continue to this day.
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
the “Tuskegee Experiment”) was an ethically abusive study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).[4][5] The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis. Although the African-American men who participated in the study were told that they were receiving free health care from the federal government of the United States, they were not.[6]