COVID-19 Has Hit The Amish Community Hard. Still, Vaccines Are A Hard Sell - NPR News

Wednesday, April 28, 2021
by Anna Huntsman (NPR)
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Holmes County health department staff members (from left) Michael Derr, Jennifer Talkington and Abbie Benton prepare materials for a COVID-19 vaccine clinic inside St. Peter's Catholic Church in Millersburg, Ohio, on April 8.
The Amish communities of northeast Ohio engage in textbook communal living. Families eat, work and go to church together, and through the pandemic, mask wearing and social distancing have been spotty. That has meant that these communities have experienced some of the state’s highest rates of infection and deaths.
Despite this, health officials are struggling to get residents vaccinated. Holmes County, where half of the population is Amish, has the lowest vaccination rate in Ohio, with just 10% of its roughly 44,000 residents fully vaccinated.

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