After two years of recommendations on masking, isolation, travel and vaccines, many are just checked out. 'I mean, it's almost like white noise':
Access Health CEO Jeff Fortenbacher's nonprofit tries to provide better health care by offering l0wer-cost health insurance and offering counseling and care to
Meanwhile, politicians are pointing fingers at the White House, saying it's botching pandemic messaging. Senators from both parties grilled Biden administration health officials about their communication strategies , chief of government and public affairs for the National Association of County and City Health Officials.Among patients and even for himself, Fortenbacher says the fatigue is palpable."It's just becoming very draining, emotionally draining, and it's very politicized — and people are just getting tired," he says.
"I think that's confusing for people — is that that initial message was that to get the vaccine, you're going to be OK," Fortenbacher says. When people hear about breakthrough infections, they incorrectly assume that this undermines the point of the vaccines and ask:"Why should I do it?"
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