Be MKE: The best places to work, new restaurants and vaccine hesitancy
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The big deals this week: The best places to work, new restaurants and vaccine hesitancy.
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As COVID-19 vaccination rates slowed this spring, Americans’ attention turned toward the groups less likely to get the shot, including white evangelicals.
Black Protestants were initially among the most skeptical toward the vaccine, but they grew significantly more open to it during the first few months of the year, while white evangelicals’ hesitancy held steady.
With African Americans, many credit robust campaigns targeting Black neighborhoods, launching vaccination clinics in Black churches, and convening discussions featuring prominent Black Christian voices for reducing rates of hesitancy. So for those eager to see higher levels of vaccination, the question became: Are white evangelical leaders doing enough to engage their own?
To combat vaccine hesitancy among Christian evangelicals, First Baptist Church in Dallas will host a COVID-19 vaccination clinic May 16.
Senior pastor Robert Jeffress said he hopes the move will encourage people to take the shot so more of his 14,000 congregants can come worship in person.
“Our church will never be what it needs to be until you’re back. The greater risk is the spiritual danger of staying isolated,” Jeffress said in a recent sermon. “I’m not forcing anybody to get the vaccine. That’s your choice. But what I am saying is if you are not back yet, and would like to come back, one option is to take the vaccine, and therefore you don’t have to worry about what other people do or don’t do here in the church.”
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1of3Homeopathic practitioner Dana Ullman, who uses the pronouns che/chis/chey, sits in chis office in Berkeley, Calif. Thursday, April 29, 2021. Ullman is a longtime homeopathic practitioner and graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in the 1970s who believes the COVID-19 vaccine is an untested, harmful drug that has caused cancer to return in one of chis patients.Jessica Christian/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Homeopathic practitioner Dana Ullman, is seen reflected in a bookcase containing a large collection of original homeopathic works which sits in chis office in Berkeley, Calif. Thursday, April 29, 2021. Ullman is a longtime homeopathic practitioner and graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in the 1970s who believes the COVID-19 vaccine is an untested, harmful drug.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less