Black, Latinx community perspectives on COVID-19 mitigation behaviors, testing, vaccines

What The Study Did:


This community-engaged


qualitative study describing Black and Latinx participants’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic found that fear, illness


and loss experienced during the


pandemic motivated information


seeking and mitigation behaviors, while


vaccine skepticism was high, as was


the demand for clearer information. Among


Black participants, racism and medical


experimentation were associated with


distrust.

Authors:


Manuel E. Jimenez, M.D., M.S., of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson


Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey,

is the corresponding author.

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