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Fast rollout of virus vaccine trials reveals distrust among Native Americans

Members of the Navajo Nation accused their government of allowing them to be guinea pigs.

(Nina Mayer Ritchie/Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health via AP) On Dec. 29, 2020, registered nurse Starla Garcia prepares a coronavirus vaccine in Chinle, Ariz., for someone who enrolled in the COVID-19 vaccine trials on the Navajo Nation and initially received a placebo.