Most of those hesitant to get jabbed say they aren’t necessarily anti-science or even anti-vaccine. onesarahjones spoke to skeptics about why they did ultimately get the shot
The vaccine hesitant say they are open to the shots, but they don’t quite trust the government. Photo: Steph Chambers/Getty Images Justin Sanetra is “waiting to see how things develop” before he gets a COVID-19 vaccine. His reasons are varied and include his allergies, which are many. He worries about the side effects, too. “When I got the flu shot before, it kind of wrecked me,” he said, adding that most people he knows got sick after their shots.
Those in the wait-and-see category aren’t wrong to feel some anxiety, said Dr. Paul Offit, who directs the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I think that anybody who came to me and said, ‘Look, I’m nervous about this. I understand it was tested in thousands of people, but that’s not millions of people, and I’m not helpless here. I can wear a mask, I can physically distance, I want to wait,’ I think that’s fair. That kind of skepticism is reasonable,” he said.
But time and data can ease the skeptics’ misgivings. Rachel had followed the coronavirus vaccines’ development from the beginning, listening to updates every day on NPR. Everything seemed so fast. There was “also the fact that the vaccine development started during the Trump era after he fired all these scientists,” she said. The government simply didn’t appear trustworthy. Getting a fast-tracked vaccine, she added, “just didn’t jive with my own personal philosophy.
Marie-Françoise said there’s likely nothing anyone could have said to persuade her to get the shot before she did. What changed her mind was the passage of time and the opportunities getting vaccinated granted her. “I have relatives out of this country, and I want to go visit them,” she said. She’s an actor and writer, and though she underwent frequent COVID testing, she needed more certainty to pay her bills. “I wanted to give myself the best chance possible for work,” she said.
To help close the vaccine disparity between white and Black and brown health-care people, Polite said, “we have to be affirmative in being anti-racist. We really do have to think about everything from recruitment, hiring and firing, from a patient-care perspective, every experience that someone has.
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