What We’re Reading
Six smart coronavirus stories on Medium and beyond
Why some Black Americans are experiencing vaccine hesitancy. “As a scientist, I know the importance of clinical studies… But as an African American woman, I also understand my community’s reluctance to be involved in clinical studies,” writes Jen Payne, who has a PhD in pathology. Payne details the traumatizing Tuskegee experiment, which was a 40-year study of 600 African American men untreated for syphilis. The legacy of the experiment has created understandable distrust of the medical system. Payne argues that trust needs to be rebuilt, and people need to become educated health care consumers and trust science.
Covid myths and misconceptions are rampant. There are so many false Covid-19 claims floating around — more than 2,000, according to a recent study — that everyone is at risk for falling for misinformation. Here are 13 Covid-19 misconceptions or falsehoods, thoroughly explained with the truth.
