Representation matters, not for some woke reason, but because 1)you want the vaccine to work for all populations, and 2) different populations react differently

Representation matters, not for some woke reason, but because 1)you want the vaccine to work for all populations, and 2) different populations react differently to medicines. A prominent case comes from early health research that largely excluded women from research samples, just assuming what was good for men was good for women. For example, it was uncovered after a number of car accidents that due to physiological sex differences in metabolism of zolpidem (Ambien) in women, dosages of Ambien were too high for women, who'd then drive impaired in the morning. In 2014 the NIH introduced a policy requiring the consideration of sex as a biological variable, because “studying both sexes is a guiding principle in biomedical research that will expand knowledge toward turning discovery into health.