(UPDATED) Vaccine Hesitancy

 

Alabama is one of the least vaccinated states, a factor that contributes to the spread of Covid19 and the variants to children.

UPDATE: As of 9-9-21, Alabama is dead-last for vaccinations:

51. Alabama
Number of people fully vaccinated: 1,938,065
Percentage of population fully vaccinated: 39.53

 

The N.Y. Times reports:

"States with the highest vaccination rates in the country have seen relatively flat pediatric hospital admissions for Covid-19 so far, while states with the lowest vaccine coverage have child hospital admissions that are around four times as high."

 From a journalism resource website:

"...............vaccine hesitancy remains an important public health concern worldwide, hampering efforts to contain the pandemic.

Although not a new phenomenon, the topic has taken on a greater urgency because of the pandemic. Researchers are trying to understand what it takes to change the minds of individuals who are still not convinced they should get the COVID-19 vaccine for themselves or their eligible children.

This has prompted a surge in studies that aim to better understand why people are vaccine hesitant and what it takes to increase their confidence in the COVID-19 vaccines. At the end of 2020 there were 92 studies on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy posted on the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed research database. As of Sept. 3, that number had climbed to 751."