Health Experts Warn U.S. May Never Reach Herd Immunity With COVID Vaccine Demand Dropping
CBS New York 5/5/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS New York
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) A drop in demand for the COVID-19 vaccine has some experts warning that we may never reach herd immunity, so why are so many people opting against the shot?
A FEMA-run site in Newark can vaccinate thousands of people per day, but outside, few takers come and go.
It’s not just in Newark.
Nationwide, demand for the vaccine has dwindled. Vaccines are down 50% since peaking on April 13, the day the federal government announced a pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Credit: (Stefan Jeremiah/Gothamist)
March 2, 2021: Zenaida Morales holds a framed image of herself with her late husband Reinaldo Rojano at her home in Elizabeth. Reinaldo Rojano died of COVID-19 at age 44.
After having a light cough for three days last spring, Miguel Mestiza Valderrabano called his partner Ana Maria Lorenzo to say that, when she got home from work, he planned to go to the hospital. He would never make it, and the mental image of his 32-year-old lifeless body on their living room floor still haunts her.
“I couldn’t believe that had happened in minutes,” Lorenzo said. She had just arrived home from her cleaning job her first assignment in weeks after she’d lost work during the shutdown and a neighbor warned her that Valderrabano said he was struggling to breathe.
arrow Zenaida Morales holds a framed image of herself with her late husband Reinaldo Rojano at her home in Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 2, 2021. Reinaldo Rojano died of COVID-19 at age 44. Stefan Jeremiah / Gothamist
After having a light cough for three days last spring, Miguel Mestiza Valderrabano called his partner Ana Maria Lorenzo to say that, when she got home from work, he planned to go to the hospital. He would never make it, and the mental image of his 32-year-old lifeless body on their living room floor still haunts her.
“I couldn’t believe that had happened in minutes,” Lorenzo said. She had just arrived home from her cleaning job her first assignment in weeks after she’d lost work during the shutdown and a neighbor warned her that Valderrabano said he was struggling to breathe.
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NEW JERSEY (WABC) Despite the outreach and efforts to increase communication, many people are still skeptical and are still asking questions about the vaccine.
For Becky Kaiser, a single mom of four and a nurse at Hackensack Meridian Health Center, getting the vaccine wasn t a sure thing. I had some hesitation about something so new and if I got sick from the vaccine, she said.
But, the devastation she saw among COVID patients compounded with her own fear of getting the virus and not being able to care for her kids, changed her mind.