Some people waited months after the COVID-19 vaccine became widely accessible to the public before getting it. Here’s what they told us: buzzfeednews.com/article/claris…
Ashley A. from California got the vaccine after a close friend was hospitalized with COVID-19 and died. “I don’t want to lose someone like that again, I can’t go through that.” she said.
Becky Rooney felt awkward and singled out at work one day when her employer announced that vaccinated staff did not need to wear their masks, following the CDC’s guidance. Everyone around her “ripped their mask off” and cheered.
“Life is moving on… I was beginning to feel left out,” said Morgan, a 30-year-old in San Diego who craved the freedom that their vaccinated loved ones had.
The country is now going through yet another déjà vu moment: Case counts are spiking, hospitalizations are soaring, and daily case records are being broken. Unvaccinated people make up most of the new cases.
“Nothing is going to get better until we increase our vaccination rates,” Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California San Francisco, told BuzzFeed News. buzzfeednews.com/article/claris…
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