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Discourses of Distrust: How Lack of Trust in the U.S. Health-Care System Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Amy Casselman-Hontalas, Dominique Adams-Santos, Celeste Watkins-Hayes
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2024, 10 (4) 154-172; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.07
Amy Casselman-Hontalas
aPhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University, United States
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Dominique Adams-Santos
bManaging director at the Center for Racial Justice, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, United States
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes
cJean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy at University of Michigan, United States
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