A new survey conducted by Northeastern, Harvard, Northwestern, and Rutgers found that if and when a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, some 66 percent American say they’ll get vaccinated.
While 77 percent of U.S. residents of Asian origin, 71 percent of Hispanics, and 67 percent of whites said they were likely to get the vaccine, only 52 percent of Black respondents said they would.
Black Americans, due to poor health, limited access to public health services, and lower socioeconomic conditions are about twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than whites. According to the CDC, Blacks who have been hospitalized after contracting the virus are at a rate almost five times higher than whites, and while they comprise only 13 percent of the U.S. population, they have suffered almost 25 percent of the deaths.
Dark History
Why are Blacks resistant to vaccinations despite being more vulnerable to the virus?
There is a deep-seated mistrust among Black American communities based on prior disasters with vaccination programs. The most infamous in over the last hundred years was the 40-year “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.”
When the study began in 1932, there was no cure for syphilis. Six hundred black men, some with syphilis and others in a “control group,” were never told they were being studied for syphilis. Enticed by promises of medical care and survivors’ insurance, the uninformed participants, all poor sharecroppers in the Macon, Alabama area, were injected with syphilis over a period of decades.
Not until 1972, when whistleblower Peter Buxtun, a former employee of the U.S. Public Health Service, broke the story did it become known that for over 40 years, dozens of black participants had died and their wives, children, and untold others had been infected with syphilis as part of the study.
Despite changes in U.S. law, which now require informed consent and open reporting of test results, Black Americans, many stuck in poor, unhealthy neighborhoods and lacking adequate medical care, remain suspicious of any government mandated health project.
This was proven clearly in late April when COVID-19 researchers from the CDC were attempting to get blood samples from residents in Georgia in order to study coronavirus antibodies. When they knocked on doors in predominantly black neighborhoods, they were met with strong resistance. Less than one in four households were willing to give blood.
“Nobody Trusts the Pharmaceutical Companies”
Sandra Quinn, a public health professor at the University of Maryland, stated in an article published on 28 May, “We know that because of the history of segregation, discrimination and racism there are reasons Black people don’t trust the government. The government doesn’t always have their best interests at heart.”
In May, Professor Quinn, collaborating with fellow public health experts at the University of Maryland, studied the level of trust in various institutions including drug companies, government, and healthcare providers. They found sharp dividing lines. One of the researchers, Amelia Jamison, said after the study, “Nobody trusts the pharmaceutical companies. But white people were generally more trusting of the government.”
TRENDPOST: According to data reported in a study of lobbying efforts by pharmaceutical companies published by the Journal of the American Medical Association in March:
“From 1999 to 2018, the pharmaceutical and health product industry spent $4.7 billion, an average of $233 million per year, on lobbying the US federal government; $414 million on contributions to presidential and congressional electoral candidates, national party committees, and outside spending groups; and $877 million on contributions to state candidates and committees.
“Contributions were targeted at senior legislators in Congress involved in drafting health care laws and state committees that opposed or supported key referenda on drug pricing and regulation.”
TRENDPOST: The Vaccination War has begun. Those opposed to being vaccinated will continue to be silenced by the social media monopolies as “conspiracy theorists” and be denounced by mainstream media, politicians, government institutions, entertainment sectors, and the educational system.
As the polls show, the more the COVID Fear and Hysteria spreads, the greater the masses line up to be shot… in the arm and through their body with a vaccination.
Go back to May when an AP-NORC poll found that only 49 percent of Americans said they would seek vaccination and only 25 percent of Blacks said they would.
With the fear being peddled non-stop – and the facts constantly ignored as to who is dying from the virus and why – as noted, the polls now show 66 percent of Americans say they will get a COVID vaccination and 52 percent of Blacks.
As we have forecast, “Anti-vaccination” will become a major platform on newly forming “Freedom of Choice” political parties.