Pandemic spurs quest to enroll more Black Americans in vaccine trials

Pandemic spurs quest to enroll more Black Americans in vaccine trials

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The initiatives could change the way vaccine and drug trials are conducted in the United States, according to Reuters interviews with more than 40 public health and pharmaceutical-industry officials.

"This mindset about diversity - of not just being an afterthought but a central part of successful trials - is beginning to sink in," Dr. Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), told Reuters.