Why young adults remain hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine:
and officials are having difficulty convincing millions of Americans to get vaccinated -- currently the best hope of averting yet another wave of COVID-19.
"It really is meeting people where they are, giving them the important information for them to be able to make the decision for themselves," Janelle Chiasera, dean of the School of Health Sciences at Quinnipiac University, which is working with the state health department on the Connecticut Public Health College Corps program, told ABC News."What we're trying to do is to get those people who are on the fence, over that fence to get the vaccine.
"The more unvaccinated people you have, the more the chances that we're setting up this virus to be able to create another variant," Chiasera said."We are allowing that virus to get smarter."The reasons behind the reluctance are varied and not fully known. One may be the"lingering effects" of not prioritizing younger populations during the initial vaccine rollout, Dr.
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