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Heather SImpson is vaccinated against COVID-19 at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.
Tara Haelle
Heather Simpson dressed up as measles for Halloween in 2019 because it was, as she told her growing following on social media, the “least scary thing I could think of.” The Dallas mom was then a full-fledged anti-vaccine influencer, drawing tens of thousands of likes and comments on her Facebook posts that denied the safety and necessity of childhood vaccinations.
But today most of the thousands who recirculated those posts have abandoned and shunned her. On a mid-April afternoon, Simpson battled traffic into downtown Dallas to reach Baylor University Medical Center for her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19. Clad in jeans and a black “Kiss Me I’m Vaccinated” T-shirt and a mask the upbeat thirty-year-old said she wouldn’t back out, despite her anxiety.
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Texas launches multimillion dollar campaign to combat vaccine hesitancy
Karen Brooks Harper and Marissa Martinez, Texas Tribune
Feb. 16, 2021
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FILE A 15-year-old participating in Moderna’s teen COVID-19 vaccine trial receives a shot in Houston of Feb. 5, 2021. Pfizer and Moderna are testing their vaccines on children 12 and older and hope to have results by the summer. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)BRANDON THIBODEAUX, STR / NYT
Snappy music opens the 15-second video featuring a diverse bunch of Texans getting their shots at a COVID-19 vaccination site.
The ad ends with a Black woman imploring her peers to “do it for yourself, do it for your family, do it for your community.”
America’s low-tech vaccine rollout
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THE VACCINE ROLLOUT S NEW TECH HURDLE: The coronavirus vaccine drive is in disarray and there’s another challenge not garnering a lot of attention: getting patients to take their second shot.
In many cases, the solution is surprisingly low-tech: just a piece of paper to remind people to get their booster three or four weeks later, depending on the shot.
Millions of patients will need to receive their second dose in the coming weeks. But getting patients to the second stage of any medical process is highly difficult, warned Mark Fendrick, a University of Michigan doctor