Reckonings with these histories are long overdue; in their absence, public health bureaucracies found that their efforts to battle Covid in marginalized communities were frequently met with skepticism. These dynamics also made some of these communities easy prey for peddlers of misinformation like my doppelganger, with her inflammatory claims on Fox that vaccine apps were tantamount to IBM’s collaboration with the Nazi death machine.

XREF: Connects to broader discussions of medical mistrust rooted in historical harms like Tuskegee and other instances of systemic abuse toward marginalized groups.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 254