Category COVID-19 Vaccines

News and hard-hitting, insightful, thoughtful, evidence-based, provocative, and progressive analysis of COVID-19 vaccines.

Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say. It’s Not an ‘Excuse’ for Current Medical Racism.

The "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," a U.S. government-sponsored unethical study on 399 Black men from Alabama that was conducted between 1932 and 1972, is not responsible for current medical racism, health inequities and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

The Zimbabwean Progressive
April 13, 2021

New COVID variants have changed the game, and vaccines will not be enough. We need global “maximum suppression”

The ongoing global rollout of life-saving vaccines no longer guarantees victory over COVID-19 as new "variants of concern" are now emerging and rapidly spreading worldwide, "putting current pandemic control efforts, including vaccination, at risk of being derailed," a group of leading health experts from around the world argues in this joint op-ed.

The Zimbabwean Progressive
April 6, 2021

Do more to combat COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, U.S. state attorneys general tell Facebook and Twitter

A coalition of U.S. state attorneys general is calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to implement aggressive measures against the anti-vaccination conspiracy theories, lies and alarmist disinformation and misinformation thriving on their platforms, undermining public confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.

Obert Madondo
March 31, 2021

Official Information About COVID-19 Is Reaching Fewer Black People on Facebook

According to data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project, there are major disparities in who is shown public health information about the pandemic.

The Zimbabwean Progressive
March 28, 2021