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How Texas health officials are countering COVID-19 vaccine skepticism – The Texas Tribune

“Vaccine hesitancy” or “vaccine skepticism” remains a huge challenge for health authorities trying to overcome mistrust by communities of color, the anti-vaxxer…

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When Julieta Hernandez began hearing the first rumblings about a COVID-19 vaccine soon arriving in Texas, the Rockport writer and bartender had no doubts that she would get her shot when her time came.
And then she sat down to breakfast with her vegetarian parents, lifelong believers in homeopathic treatments with a deep skepticism for vaccines and mistrust in the government.
Youre not planning on getting that, are you? they asked her.
Now, Hernandez, 22, is on the fence, feeling guilty because…

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