Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines

Susan M. Reverby

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001167

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Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines

Susan M. Reverby

* E-mail: sreverby@wellesley.edu

Affiliations Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States of America, Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9272-2136

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Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines

Susan M. Reverby

Published: March 8, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001167

About the Authors

Susan M. Reverby

* E-mail: sreverby@wellesley.edu

Affiliations Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States of America, Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9272-2136

Competing Interests

The author has declared no competing interests exist.

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