Vaccine
Pathways to COVID-19 vaccine initiation: The roles of medical mistrust, conspiracy beliefs, hesitancy, and confidence among black young adults.
Ibrahim Yigit, Marie C D Stoner, Kathryn E Muessig, Lisa B Hightow-Weidman, Henna Budhwani
Published: 202610.1016/j.vaccine.2026.128253
Abstract
Medical mistrust, stemming from historical and contemporary inequalities in healthcare, poses a major barrier to vaccination, particularly among Black communities in the southern U.S. While medical mistrust is known to influence vaccine uptake, the u…
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