A community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then the government stopped the study

Some Denver parents got texts during this winter’s brutal flu season with videos sharing why people in their neighborhoods chose flu shots for their kids. It was an unusual study about trust and vaccines in a historically Black community but no one will know how it worked out: The Trump administration canceled the project before the data could be analyzed. It’s an example of research being lost at time when understanding vaccine hesitancy is especially urgent. Flu killed a near-record 216 children this year and vaccine-preventable measles and whooping cough are soaring.

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