Ouch! Needle-phobic people scarred by so many images of COVID-19 shots
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Ouch! Needle-phobic people scarred by so many images of COVID-19 shots
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Sam Ruland, York Daily Record
Published
1:40 pm UTC Mar. 9, 2021
About this series: Over the next several weeks, reporters with USA Today s Pennsylvania network will take a look back at the impact COVID-19 has had on the commonwealth over the past year, and what the future holds.
Neighborhoods across the state some lined with million-dollar homes, others by more modest dwellings struggled to survive this year as the coronavirus pandemic uprooted the lives of Pennsylvanians everywhere. But while the unprecedented catastrophe was shared by millions adjusting to their new normal, the suffering was not equally spread.
For low-income Pennsylvanians like Elena, a mother of two without reliable income to pay the bills, surviving the pandemic was made harder by financial and structural imbalances that almost ensure the most marginalized residents bear the heaviest burdens of a public health crisis.
Anti-vaxxers often target specific ethic groups or communities for recruitment and messaging.
For example, lawyer and bioethicist Barbara Pfeffer Billauer of the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., says such groups previously mobilized insular communities of Somalis and ultraorthodox Jews to oppose measles vaccines. Their basic message is: The disease is not dangerous, be it COVID or measles; the vaccine is dangerous; and big pharma/government is out to dupe you, she said.
To add wattage to their emotionally charged messages, anti-vaxxers like Del Bigtree of the Informed Consent Action Network reopen old wounds. I would maybe tell you to go and look at the Tuskegee experiment and ask yourself, Are they lining up for another Tuskegee using African American citizens? said Bigtree in a June 21 video posted to Facebook and YouTube.