Doctors say there are multiple reasons people arenât yet vaccinated. There are the hesitant, who still have questions and sometimes fall prey to misinformation, and the opposed, who often harbor anti-government or anti-science sentiments.
âWeâve had a little success when weâve spoken to them on a one-to-one basis. We can give them the information that they need to make their decision,â said Dr. Gerald Maloney, chief medical officer for hospital services at Geisinger health network, which runs nine hospitals in Pennsylvania.
Some still canât easily access vaccine, either because itâs not available nearby or because they canât get time off work.
And while the U.S. government paid for all vaccines and vaccinations so no one should be charged, others remain fearful they will be on the financial hook for a shot, Maloney said.
But wait! It was sailing out of FL! Didnât DeStupidass forbid requiring testing or verification? Just sail anyway! Sigh, anyone getting on one of these floating petri dishes needs a full psych eval.
But whatâs particularly shocking about the outbreak at the U.S. embassy is that its staff have had access to vaccines for over six months now, meaning the spike there is largely because of staff who refused to get vaccinated or arenât yet fully vaccinated.
They added the letter lambda to Covidâs list of variants. Soon the authorities will run out of the letters of the Greek alphabet and they will have to adopt Chinese characters.
Well I donât know if that narrative is taking off for vaccines in general but Sinovac in particular is definitely taking a hit to its reputation. I just checked Worldometer and, over the last 7 days, Seychelles (widely touted as the âworldâs most vaccinated countryâ a couple months ago) has the worldâs highest number of new cases on a per-capita basis by a factor of two over the next highest country, Uruguay. (Uruguay also mostly uses Sinovac)