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Amish put faith in God s will, herd immunity over COVID vaccine - Indianapolis Business Journal
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Amish community vaccine rates trail behind as they put faith in God s will and herd immunity
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Local hospitals and health departments are changing tactics to reach those still unvaccinated.
“The days of the large COVID clinics are coming to an end,” said Nick Cascarelli, Wayne County health commissioner.
As fewer people book vaccine appointments, health departments in Ashland, Wayne, and Holmes counties are transitioning to more walk-in clinics and pulling back on vaccine orders.
Supply is no longer the issue to getting more people vaccinated.
“It’s not an availability issue,” said Shirley Bixby, nursing director at the Ashland County Health Department. “I think the entire state is seeing saturation” of vaccine doses.
Local health agencies also are holding private clinics for businesses to vaccinate their employees and reaching out to schools to administer vaccines to students as younger age groups become eligible.
Vaccine rates have slowed over the last month in Ohio. The numbers could tick up as children ages 12 to 15 gain access to the Pfizer vaccine.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19. The FDA originally issued authorization for the use of the Pfizer vaccine in individuals 16 years of age and older.
Parents or guardians who want to vaccinate their adolescents may have to wait until local administrators open clinics to the younger age group and county health departments obtain the Pfizer doses. The majority of vaccine shots administered by Holmes and Wayne County health departments have been Moderna.
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Holmes County, Ohio, General Health District staff members (from left) Michael Derr, Jennifer Talkington and Abbie Benton prepare materials for a COVID-19 vaccine clinic this month inside St. Peter s Catholic Church in Millersburg.
The Amish communities of northeast Ohio engage in textbook communal living. Families eat, work and go to church together, and through the pandemic, mask-wearing and social distancing have been spotty. As a result, these communities have experienced some of the state s highest rates of infection and deaths.
Nevertheless, health officials are struggling to get residents vaccinated. Holmes County, where half of the population is Amish, has the lowest vaccination rate in Ohio, with just 10% of its roughly 44,000 residents fully vaccinated.
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