Misinfo thrives at Spanish-speaking vaccination site; health workers are fighting back
LORAIN — Wanda knows she’s lucky to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Her three adult-aged children in the Dominican Republic haven’t yet had the chance — there are too few doses for too many people to go around.
In the United States and Ohio in particular, the inverse is true: There’s an abundance of vaccines and a shortfall of people willing to receive them.
“Wanda,” 38, who requested her real first and last name not be used, said through a translator her coworkers believe numerous falsehoods about the vaccines.
“A lot of them are afraid, some of them think they’ll die, they’ll get sick, they think they’ll become zombies,” she described. “They say it’s like a magnet, that pulls.”