Vaccine nurse says being descended from Henrietta Lacks helps her understand her patients' fears.
How do you ask a community to trust medicine when history has given them many reasons not to?
Tuskegee was a 40-year experiment conducted by the US government in which hundreds of black men were deliberately left untreated for syphilis, without their knowledge. After it was exposed, regulations were introduced in 1974 that required voluntary informed consent from all subjects taking part in research.And as for Henrietta Lacks - few people are better placed than Victoria to understand that story of unethical medical research.
The spiralling number of these cells, a feature of her cancer, would prove devastating for her - but revolutionary for science. The full details about HeLa cells were only drawn to some of the family's attention when science writer Rebecca Skloot, who wrote a best-selling book about the case, started investigating.
In early 2020, Victoria was working as a nurse in a hospital kidney unit. But when Covid hit, her work changed dramatically. Like many healthcare workers she was afraid of taking the disease home.Fearing burnout, but wanting to keep caring for people, in 2021 she became a travelling nurse, giving Covid-19 vaccines.
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