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The need is still there, she said.
Stark County is echoing a trend seen nationwide.
Meanwhile, Louisiana has stopped asking the federal government for its full allotment of COVID-19 vaccine. About three-quarters of Kansas counties have turned down new shipments of the vaccine at least once over the past month. And in Mississippi, officials asked the federal government to ship vials in smaller packages so they don’t go to waste.
“It is kind of stalling. Some people just don’t want it,” said Stacey Hileman, a nurse with the health department in rural Kansas’ Decatur County, where less than a third of the county’s 2,900 residents have received at least one vaccine dose.
Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday morning asked Ohio providers to hold off on using the vaccine.
Ohio had provided the Johson & Johnson vaccine to college campuses in an effort to vaccine students before summer break, according to a news release from the university.
The news release urged students to make vaccine appointments elsewhere.
The Stark County Health Department and Kent State will still hold a vaccine clinic for students at Kent s Stark and Tuscarawas County campuses April 19 at the Stark County Board of Developmental Disabilities Whipple-Dale Centre.
The clinic will offer the Pfzier vaccine,
All Kent Start students, faculty, staff, and their families can register for the clinic online.
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Then, Harding s husband looked at her. He had conviction in his eyes, she recalled. We have to get the vaccine because we are African Americans in the medical field, he said to her. That was my confirmation, Harding said.
Vaccine distrust
A disproportionate number of them are from minority communities.
Black Americans are 1.1 times more likely to contract COVID-19, nearly 3 times as likely to be hospitalized, and nearly twice as likely to die from the disease, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hispanic and Latino individuals as well as American Indians and Alaskan natives also are disproportionately likely to be infected, hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus.