Public health officials want more Americans to get the latest COVID vaccine booster. Only 35% of people over 65 have gotten the shot, though 75% of COVID deaths are among people in this age group.
to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020 as a critical care nurse, and now she's vice president of public health advocacy at Northwell Health in New York."We all have a responsibility to our loved ones," she says."If you are sick, stay home. Grandma — take her to get vaccinated as a Christmas gift.
Baur has worked with community health workers who are out in Maryland pounding the pavement, talking to people about vaccination, and it's slow going."I don't think that we or anybody else doing this work has found any particular message or fact or phrase that is kind of really changing hearts and minds," Baur says.
The mass vaccination system that popped up during the pandemic isn't how most adults get vaccinated, she points out. So as those systems close down, it may be time to put the focus back on health care providers, like doctors, who can have a relationship with patients and really hear their concerns and answer their questions.
"Providers are still the number one source for vaccine recommendations," she says."If providers are recommending vaccines, at least it's opening the door to a conversation and the likelihood that somebody might think a little bit more carefully about it."There are a lot of ways to combat vaccine hesitancy, including focusing on misinformation or politicization or trust in public health.
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