The vaccine gender gap: More women are getting shots than men
The vaccine gender gap: More women are getting shots than men
Public health experts cite many reasons for the difference, including that women make up three-quarters of the workforce in health care and education.
Nurse Lisa Wheeler administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Cristina Montins, 40, at Ellis Davis Fieldhouse, a Parkland Hospital testing and vaccine location, in Dallas on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Lola Gomez/The Dallas Morning News)(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
By Kaiser Health News
Mary Ann Steiner drove 2 1/2 hours from her home in the St. Louis suburb of University City to the tiny Ozark town of Centerville, Mo., to get vaccinated against COVID-19. After pulling into the drive-through line in a church parking lot, she noticed that others waiting for shots had something in common with her.
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