Why is the Bronx’s COVID-19 vaccination rate so low?
Experts said a mistrust of doctors, a lack of access to vaccination sites and online conspiracy theories were contributing factors. Bay Eden Senior Center in the Bronx is a state run vaccination site. Don Pollard/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo The must-read daily newsletter for NY s political community. Get it in your inbox.
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Terence Franklin is 62 years old, unvaccinated and lives in the Bronx, which had some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods in New York City during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. With highly effective COVID-19 vaccines now widely available, health experts are reexamining how to convince people who are reluctant or opposed to the vaccine – especially because the highly contagious delta variant is causing infection rates to soar, overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated. President Joe Biden said recently, “The only pandemic w