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"Compared to college graduates, people without a degree were more than twice as likely to say they wouldn’t or probably wouldn’t get the shot, according to the most recent national survey results. Respondents without insurance were also about twice as likely to say they were definitely or probably going to turn it down.

Stacy Stanford of the Utah Health Policy Project said that matches what her organization has seen on the ground and in state data on gaps between vaccination rates among Medicaid recipients and the rest of the population.

While 72.6% of all Utahns 12 and older have received at least one dose of the vaccine, only 46% of Medicaid recipients have, according to the Utah Department of Health.

In many cases, she said, these individuals aren’t entrenched in their views.
“Maybe they’ve seen some misinformation, they have questions, they don’t feel informed. All of these things that cause hesitancy,” she said. “And those are really compounded by access barriers.”
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“You add misinformation to bad experiences, and then you add to that things like being a person of color already more likely to have those negative experiences … all of that stuff compounds and builds barriers to vaccine acceptance,” she said.

... via Salt Lake Tribune

www.sltrib.com/news/2021/09/27/heres-why-vaccine/ ...

Here’s why vaccine-hesitant Utahns say they’re avoiding the COVID-19 shot

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U.S. Census Bureau surveys about vaccine hesitancy suggest that concern about side effects is the most common reason Utahns are avoiding a COVID-19 shot.
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"Nicole Lurie fears that what we’re about to learn is that flu plus Covid is going to make winters miserable and deadly.

Lurie, who was the assistant secretary for preparedness and response in the Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration, notes that in pre-Covid times, between 20,000 and 60,000 Americans died each winter from influenza. Covid’s toll could be higher than that still, because people have largely given up on changing their lifestyles to avoid becoming infected, and a substantial portion of people remain unvaccinated."

... via STAT News ...

Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 in the new season

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Some see hope for the Delta surge to wane, but a rebound of the flu this winter could bring other complications, experts say.
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