'Republicans, rural residents, and White Evangelical Christians continue to be disproportionately more likely to say they will definitely not get vaccinated.'
They deserve patience, not shaming, says 40-year-old Theresa Chapple, who says her sister was vaccinated recently after opting to “wait and see” how the vaccines worked out for others.
Emergency-use authorization is used exactly for circumstances such as this — a global pandemic like COVID-19 or HIV/AIDS and, according to the FDA, “chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats including infectious diseases.” “ Theresa Chapple’s sister had concerns about ‘what type of vaccine’ the government might send to Black communities. ”
Chapple’s sister and teenage niece were vaccinated about a month ago, after experiencing “positive peer pressure” from being the last members of their bubble still unvaccinated, she tweeted recently. Andy Slavitt, a former adviser to the Biden administration on COVID-19, recently suggested that up to 99% of the Americans dying of the coronavirus were unvaccinated.
But, given federal health officials’ warnings that the country faces a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” here are some strategies for those who believe it’s their responsibility to try: Try a personal appeal Make a personal plea for why you care so much about this person getting vaccinated, and explain why you chose to get the shots yourself, said primary-care doctor Kavita Patel, a nonresident fellow at the center-left Brookings Institution who served as a policy director in former president Barack Obama’s administration.
“I lost my mom to suicide , and my dad to alcoholism. Both preventable deaths. I don’t want to lose you from something equally preventable,” she wrote in the message, which she shared with MarketWatch. “You bring so much joy and light to my and the girls’ life.” — Ponta Abadi, 29, had feared for the safety of an older relative with preexisting health risks While he had never espoused any QAnon-related beliefs, Abadi found useful advice on Reddit’s “QAnon Casualties” forum, which offers resources for communicating with loved ones “taken in by” the conspiracy theory.
Meet them where they are A.C., a West Texas resident who asked that MarketWatch withhold her full name to protect the identities of those she had counseled about vaccination, said that losing her mother to COVID-19 shortly before the first vaccines were authorized had made her passionate about getting her fellow community members vaccinated.
For example, A.C. said she told one woman who believed God would protect her from the virus to get vaccinated “not because you don’t feel that God is protecting you, but because you know also that God has also instituted other means by which we can be healed and taken care of.” “I said, ‘Is there anywhere in the Bible where God is opposed to hospitals or medicine?’” she said.
A graphic showing how the vaccine was safely developed at such unprecedented speed proved particularly useful, Bradford said. Play the long game … There’s no magic bullet to make someone fully confident in vaccination, El-Sadr said: “It’s a matter of having an ongoing conversation, and there’s no guarantee of success.”
“No one’s going to jab them without their consent,” Patel said, but making vaccination as convenient as possible helps make it hard to refuse.
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