Covid-19 Vaccination Drive Reaches Frustration StagePersuading the Hesitant – The Wall Street Journal

KINGSPORT, Tenn.As the pace of vaccinations in the U.S. stalls, health officials have embarked on a painstaking effort to get shots to undecided or isolated Americans.

That often requires bringing vaccines directly to the unvaccinated and talking to them one by one. Health officials are using pop-up and mobile clinics and financial incentives. And they are turning to community leaders to make introductions to the skeptical.

Pastor Barry Braan Jr. was doing just that kind of outreach last month at a Juneteenth festival in northeastern Tennessee, where two pop-up vaccination stations were set up amid the food trucks and face-painting stalls.

A few months earlier, Mr. Braan himself had been reluctant to get vaccinated. He had recovered from a bout with Covid-19, he said, and he was skeptical reliable vaccines could have been developed so quickly. A conversation with a local health official helped change his mind, and now he wants to do the same for others.

Having those one-on-one conversations that address their individual concerns are paramount, he said. Getting to a place where you can do that, Im finding difficult.

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