37 Race and ethnicity have been reported to play a fairly significant role in the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy due to mistrust in the health system in general. 36 , 38 , 39 , 48 , 49 According to Willis et al. 49 “Distrust of the medical establishment by Black/African Americans is often traced back to the Tuskegee syphilis study, but the distrust is deeply rooted beyond a single incident and is predicated on centuries of racist exploitation by medical researchers and doctors.
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