Overheard in the hospital, a woman from kitchen staff speaking with a doctor, both Black. Somehow the topic of #CovidVaccine came up. The doctor asked the woman if she’d gotten the vaccine yet. She said no and that she wasn’t going to. 1/
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I was further reminded that Blacks are much more severely affected by
#COVID19 when a patient’s relative told me she know several people who had died of COVID, including a healthy man in his 50s. I know a fair number of people who got symptomatic COVID, but no one who died. 5/Show this thread -
I know, I know, this is anecdotal personal experience and thus unreliable and potentially unrepresentative, but it’s in line with what the data show. The bottom line is that we have a lot of work to do to win the trust of people like this woman. We need to do better. 6/6
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A lot of that distrust and reliance on faith is, however, deeply rooted in the history/ongoing practices of racist medical violence against people of colour, especially Black people.
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Exactly. I’ve discussed this problem on a number of occasions. It’s not unreasonable for Black people to distrust the medical profession, given their history with it. The problem is: How do we overcome this mistrust?
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