And they weren't tested on people with chronic disabilities either.....
40 percent of Americans are people of color, but they comprise less than five percent of participants in medical research. This is one of the reasons they are dying of many diseases at higher rates than white Americans. This is also why many drugs, treatment methods, and other research developments are less effective on people of color. It has led to higher mortality rates, a lower quality of life, and higher healthcare costs.A 2011 survey by the International Journal of Health Services studied the racial and ethnic disparities regarding quality of life and healthcare costs. The results were damning, concluding that “eliminating health disparities for minorities would have reduced direct medical care expenditures by $203 billion, and indirect losses by more than $1 trillion.” These illnesses ran the gamut from influenza to HPV, obesity to depression, Parkinson’s to skin disease.
And these problems aren’t going away: by 2044, less than 50 percent of Americans will be white. And if current trends continue, medical trials will fail to reflect this demographic shift.