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Opinion | The Reasons for Covid Vaccine Hesitancy
  + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “Covid Vaccine Hesitancy Is Getting Worse,” by Danielle Ofri (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 31):Unfortunately, Dr. Ofri’s language here embodies the misguided approach that too many in the medical community have taken during and after the pandemic, severely eroding our patients’ trust in public health. Reasonable people can disagree about the utility of Covid vaccine boosters in otherwise healthy adults. Indeed the World Health Organization is not recommending updated Covid boosters for otherwise healthy adults or children. Thus, the almost 80 percent of American adults who chose not to get boosted this winter are not suffering from the “heebie-jeebies.” They are making a rational decision that is in line with that made by European health agencies that likewise don’t support universal Covid boosters (a policy that, in my mind, is strongly supported by the current scientific evidence). To suggest otherwise is harmful to the trust we physicians are trying to restore with our patients after the pandemic.
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“It’s time for the flu shot,” I’ll say to my patients, “plus the updated Covid vaccine.” And that’s when the groans start. In the past, the flu shot elicited the most resistance. Health professionals everywhere are hearing this kind of hesitance among patients as Covid cases and hospitalizations have continued to rise during the winter. As of early January, the average number of Americans dying weekly from Covid was over 1,700. And yet, the Jan. 19 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report indicated that only 21.8 percent of adults 18 and older have received the latest Covid vaccine — less than half of the percentage of those who have gotten the flu vaccine.
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Many of these people are actually eligible for insurance, but lose coverage because of the byzantine logistics. The net effect is that we require an enormous chunk of the U.S. population to continually re-enroll for health insurance. For employer-based health insurance, this would be relatively simple, as most ineligibility stems from no longer working at the company, something that employers surely know. For everyone else, health insurance would auto-renew each year the same way it already does for the plans on the Affordable Care Act exchanges. For Medicaid, the income eligibility requirement adds a layer of complexity, but there are nevertheless ways to reduce the hoop jumping.
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