The effort to immunize the difficult-to-reach in rural Lancaster County — including the Plain community — ended in July with eroding demand for COVID-19 shots at pop-up clinics targeting the
“In some cases, they would say things like: ‘I knew I was sick. I didn’t have to go and tell someone I was sick.’ Or another concern of: ‘Well, if it turns out I’m sick, I’m going to be told to do this and this that I don’t want to do.’”
Donald Kraybill, senior fellow emeritus at the Young Center, said the vaccination decisions among the Plain community are as diverse as the 550 Amish congregations in Pennsylvania, because that’s where the decisions are made.
“I know of some congregations where they had an onset of infections back in last summer and last fall, and many of them feel, well, they’re already immunized by the fact that they already had the virus,” he said.