Not sure why you were downvoted. Mistrust with medicine is widely documented as a key factor in the slow vaccine rollout for some groups in the US, particularly Black Americans [1][2]. There's a century-long history of bias, mistreatment, and systemic racism which led to mistrust in medicine [3][4]; vaccines are just the tip of the iceberg.
Thankfully the situation is slowly improving thanks to targeted work in specific communities [5], but still some work to do.
EDIT: sure, not directly related to parent's horrific experience, but similar theme: we've made great strides in the last few decades to treat the body, but still struggling to overcome the traumatic experiences some groups had in the recent past.
Your ambiguous phrasing suggests that your references provide "wide documentation" that "mistrust with medicine" is "a key factor" in black people not being vaccinated. Your references 2 and 3 say nothing of the sort. All they document is that blacks and latinos have lower vaccination rates - not the cause. After my random sampling of two of your citations, I assume that the others are similarly unsupportive.
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Not sure why you were downvoted. Mistrust with medicine is widely documented as a key factor in the slow vaccine rollout for some groups in the US, particularly Black Americans [1][2]. There's a century-long history of bias, mistreatment, and systemic racism which led to mistrust in medicine [3][4]; vaccines are just the tip of the iceberg.
Thankfully the situation is slowly improving thanks to targeted work in specific communities [5], but still some work to do.
EDIT: sure, not directly related to parent's horrific experience, but similar theme: we've made great strides in the last few decades to treat the body, but still struggling to overcome the traumatic experiences some groups had in the recent past.
[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/14/us/vaccine-ra...
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/
[4] https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a35483492/racial-bias...
[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/black-americans-vaccin...
Your ambiguous phrasing suggests that your references provide "wide documentation" that "mistrust with medicine" is "a key factor" in black people not being vaccinated. Your references 2 and 3 say nothing of the sort. All they document is that blacks and latinos have lower vaccination rates - not the cause. After my random sampling of two of your citations, I assume that the others are similarly unsupportive.