The coronavirus is hitting African Americans especially hard. Jahmil Lacey, a researcher on health disparities, says distrust of the medical establishment is a big reason why.
Lacey said there's a longstanding mistrust that some black Americans feel toward the public health establishment.
Take for example, Lacey said, the infamous Tuskegee experiment, when over the course of 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service allowed syphilis to go untreated in hundreds of African American men in order to chronicle the progression of the disease inside the body. in Detroit, a majority African American city, to test a drug on 3,000 local residents that is regularly touted by President Trump.
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