Impressions

Will people refuse COVID-19 vaccine?

Bill Tubbs
Posted 4/22/20

Scientists are racing to find a vaccine for COVID-19, but once found, will people take it? Seems like a silly question, but maybe not, given attitudes promulgated by the anti-vax crowd that refuses proven vaccines for measles and polio. Polio, which scared people in the 1950s much like COVID-19 does now, has NOT been eradicated. Forty-two children in Pakistan and Afghanistan,where the Taliban is pushing back against child vaccinations, have contracted polio thus far in 2020.

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