Debating the COVID-19 Vaccine, if and When it Comes Out – WBOC TV 16

SALISBURY, Md. - If a vaccine for COVID-19 were to come out tomorrow, would you get in line? Recent polls find most people would want it, but many aren't so sure. People in Salisbury have mixed opinions.

A survey done by the Pew Research Centersays seven in 10 people would definitely or probably get the vaccine if it were available. Some people in Salisbury say they'd want to protect themselves.

"Because I want to be protected from it. I haven't got coronavirus and I don't want to get it,"Matilda Tull of Salisbury says.

Some say they'd also want to protect others.

"Because well first of all I have elderly parents who I'm quite worried about their health and if I were to get sick myself, I could possibly pass it on to them. So I want to protect my family,"Charles Baldwin of Salisbury says.

But, many people aren't jumping up so fast. They say they're skeptical.

"It's like getting the flu virus. You didn't have it before and now you got it. And, I'm older so, I'm a diabetic so it probably wouldn't be good for me,"Ronnie Godwin of Cincoteague says.

Others worry about how the vaccine would affect them.

"I don't see it as a preventative and it's something that they're not even sure of what it will do. They don't know the side effects. Even with other flu shots per say, some people still get the flu with it,"Dellophine Henry of Salisbury says.

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