Overheard in the hospital, a woman from kitchen staff speaking with a doctor, both Black. Somehow the topic of #CovidVaccine came up. The doctor asked the woman if she’d gotten the vaccine yet. She said no and that she wasn’t going to. 1/
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The doc asked why. She said she was healed by His blood. The doc politely but urgently suggested that she “really should get the vaccine” because
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Her response was that when He wants you to come home, there’s nothing you can do about it. I suppose, from a Christian point of view, that’s true, but I also learned years ago, when I was still a devoted Catholic, that God helps those who help themselves. 3/
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Leaving our seemingly deformed theologies aside, this little overheard snippet of conversation as I was passing through reminded me that vaccine hesitancy is not just a problem among white, Trump-living evangelicals. It’s a huge problem among people of color as well. 4/
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I was further reminded that Blacks are much more severely affected by
#COVID19 when a patient’s relative told me she know several people who had died of COVID, including a healthy man in his 50s. I know a fair number of people who got symptomatic COVID, but no one who died. 5/1 reply 1 retweet 26 likesShow this thread -
I know, I know, this is anecdotal personal experience and thus unreliable and potentially unrepresentative, but it’s in line with what the data show. The bottom line is that we have a lot of work to do to win the trust of people like this woman. We need to do better. 6/6
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Replying to @gorskon
The key with vaccine hesitant people is to listen, try and establish a rapport, and build trust. There is actually hope for them. Now, anti-vaxxers just forget it. The hard part is telling the anti-vaxxer apart from the vaccine hesitant.
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It’s actually not that hard to tell the difference in most cases. I have a couple of tests that are fairly reliable.
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