Experts explain why vaccine hesitancy is high among people under age 30 and how to talk with this group about getting vaccinated without turning them off.
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President Joe Biden announced a month-long push in June for 70% of U.S. adults to be vaccinated with at least one shot by July 4. Right now, we’re only at about 64 percent of people age 18 and older. Some of that is access. But some is still vaccine hesitancy. Who’s holding out?
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation vaccine monitor, people under 30 have the highest percentage of “wait and see” responses when asked about their intentions to vaccinate. “We see more and more people who are either willing to get the vaccine or have flipped from the category of ‘no’ to ‘maybe later,’ but this age group doesn’t appear to be necessarily driving those hesitancy decreases,” says Kirsten Hokeness, Ph.D., chair of the department of science and technology at Bryant University, who’s been researching vaccine hesitancy. It’s not only important for this group to be inoculated to help keep Covid rates down on a population level, it’s also i
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Norah Aguirre, right, 17 of Wakefield, Rhode Island smiles after clinical nurse manager Marlene Reidl, left, delivered her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Hasbro Children s Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island on April 3, 2021. The FDA has recently authorized the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 16-years old and older.Matthew Healey/Matthew Healey for The Boston Globe
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