New ads urge minorities to participate in coronavirus vaccine trials

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As coronavirus vaccine trials struggle to get minority participation, a group formed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has unveiled an ad campaign urging Black and Latino people to get involved.

The campaign, which includes television commercials and print ads, began to roll out earlier this week.

"This pandemic is not red. This pandemic is not blue. This pandemic is black, is brown, is white. It hits all colors and creeds," a voice-over on one ad says. "But even when things look bleak, we know that someone is full of hope and strength and wants to take action."

The ad features several people of different ethnicities. A second ad shared with NBC News includes a Black bus driver saying he's an essential worker and a Black restaurant worker saying he's a father. "That's why I volunteered," both men say.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-ads-urge-minorities-to-participate-in-coronavirus-vaccine-trials/ar-BB18WRZG?li=BBnb7Kz

Why? Does Trump feel they're more expendable?

[MissMillie]

1. I don't think that's it

NPR was did a story this morning on this. They need a broad sample of people and apparently they are not getting enough volunteers from minority communities.

[uponit7771]

2. They'll need Obama. Trump hates black people and we still remember Tuskegee so we can't put

... it past the US government to harm us.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Different ethnicities, races if you will,

often have very different responses or reactions to medications. Same way with men as compared to women. Too often medicines have only been tested on white men, leading to wrong dosages for women or persons of color.

So no, you are very wrong to think that. Any vaccine needs to be very widely tested on lots of different groups and populations.