The evangelical director of the National Institutes of Health answered some of the common concerns tied to the COVID-19 vaccines in a new podcast for the National Association of Evangelicals in which he urged Christians to take part in the vaccine rollout.
American evangelicals and the resistance to COVID vaccines
Evangelical leaders in the US have helped sow distrust in public health professionals and COVID-19 vaccines. But some church leaders within the ranks are confronting the resistance amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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During the summer, when the coronavirus tore through the United States, misinformation campaigns promoted conspiracy theories that could jeopardize the health of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Many evangelical Christians a loosely defined group of mostly doctrinally conservative Protestants have been fractured by myths about the COVID-19 vaccine and the pandemic.
Critics have accused right-wing fundamentalist pastors of perpetuating baseless theories that encourage their flock to ignore public health data and experts fighting the coronavirus. Some unfounded claims include the assertion that the vaccine is the mark of the beast, or will cause sterilizatio