An email. That's how Moderna, an American biotechnology company, asked the Hualapai Tribe about participating in its COVID-19 vaccine trial.
Tribal officials asked the company to go through its media team, meet face-to-face or arrange an online video meeting, Hualapai Chairman Damon Clarke said. The small community of 2,300 registered members was fearful of becoming mere test subjects in a larger experiment.
In the end, Moderna representatives did nothing outside of email and, with so little inf