Some health care workers reject COVID-19 vaccines
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Only 27% of PruittHealth's employees in Florida, Georgia, and
North and South Carolina eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine had gotten one by the
end of January, despite incentives like a chance to win a flat-screen TV, says
Neil Pruitt. Vaccine uptake by health care workers and the public throughout
the South has been slowed by long-standing mistrust, concerns about safety and
side effects, belief in misinformation and the politicization of the pandemic,
say Pruitt, former Surgeon General Jerome Adams and Alabama public health
officer Scott Harris.
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