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On Saturday,
Douglas Jessop wasn’t getting anywhere.
For the past 15 minutes, the canvasser with Community Coalition had been standing in a driveway in South L.A., listening to Myra Trahan explain why she hadn’t gotten around to getting vaccinated for COVID-19. Mostly, the 19-year-old college student told him, it’s because she hadn’t had time to do her own research.
Jessop nodded and finally asked: “What would satisfy you enough to be like, ‘OK, I’ll go get it’?”
Trahan thought for a moment.
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“I’m not really sure,” she said. “Like I don’t know what’s really stopping me and I don’t know what really could push me to get to it. I just need to know the long-term effects. I need to know if this is something I need to get every month, every two months, every year? Or is it just like a one-time shot type of thing?”
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