Monday Spotlight, ADVISORY

EDITORS:

The following story will move Sunday as this week's Monday Spotlight, a feature showcasing the best off-the-news enterprise in the AP report:

VIRUS OUTBREAK-TUSKEGEE-MISTRUST — Roughly 40 million black Americans are deciding minute by minute whether to put their faith in the government and in the medical field during the coronavirus pandemic. Some might call it the Tuskegee effect, referring to the U.S. government’s once-secret syphilis study of black men in Alabama that one study shows later reduced their life expectancy due to distrust of medical science. By Aaron Morrison and Jay Reeves. UPCOMING: 1,010 words, photos.

The AP