‘Don’t you work with old people?’ Many elder-care workers still refuse to get COVID-19 vaccine

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They are two sisters in two states. Both are dedicated health care professionals who watched in horror as COVID-19 swept through the nation’s nursing homes, killing a staggering number of residents and staff alike.

One sister is now vaccinated. The other is not.

Dude. Get vaccinated!” Heidi Lucas texted her sister Ashley in May from her home in Jefferson City, Missouri.

“Nope lol,” Ashley Lucas texted back from Orbisonia, Pennsylvania.

“Don’t you work with old people?”

“Yeah.”

“What if you killed one of them? Get vaccinated,” Heidi wrote.

Neither sister is budging as the Delta variant brings a new spike in coronavirus numbers across the nation.

Their divide mirrors America’s larger one, where the vaccine to combat COVID-19 is eagerly embraced by some, yet eyed with suspicion and rejected by others.

 

Mariam

Article URL : https://ctmirror.org/2021/07/25/dont-you-work-with-old-people-many-elder-care-workers-still-refuse-to-get-covid-19-vaccine/