Some in the Black community are reluctant to get the COVID vaccine because of an ugly past of clinical experimentation targeting this population. A Black pathologist, Valerie A. Fitzhugh, MD, FCAP—associate professor and interim chair of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory medicine with Rutgers New Jersey Medical School—tells her story of why she participated in a vaccine trial and is urging others to get vaccinated.
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