🚨Unvaccinated people aren't a monolith. It's a huge mistake to treat them all as anti-vaxxers who are being selfish or antagonistic.
I spoke to @RheaBoydMD about why some folks are still unvaccinated, what to do about it, & why she's still hopeful. 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
I spoke to @RheaBoydMD about why some folks are still unvaccinated, what to do about it, & why she's still hopeful. 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
.@RheaBoydMD's views on vaccines, and why some people still haven't got theirs, are smart and nuanced. Perhaps more importantly, they're also wise and compassionate. She has certainly helped me rethink the problem. I hope you'll read this interview 2/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…
So much of the vaccine discourse, and the blame placed on "the unvaccinated", ignores the big lingering issue of access--not only to vaccines, but to good info around them--and, by extension, longstanding inequalities of race and class in the US. 3/ theatlantic.com/health/archive… 
This bit's crucial. Anti-vaxxers have successfully sown distrust in vaccines... but also in *unvaccinated people*. They've created the illusion that everyone unvaccinated is aligned with them, which isn't true, and is making those folks harder to reach. 4/
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
The easy part of the vaccination campaign is over. Now comes the hard phase. It has to happen in communities. It'll be deeply personal. It has to happen without condescension or unhelpful stereotypes. It'll be slow & we need to buy time for it. 5/
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
I've heard so much despair about the vaccination plateau. But when I spoke to Boyd, she was hopeful. It might not feel like it from Twitter, but there's still a lot of room to move the needle, if we can reframe our understanding of the problem. /End theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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