Other Views: Talking vaccine anxiety, guilt and shaming
Professor discusses three emerging vaccination attitudes and how to manage them as the vaccine access widens to new populations.
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University of Minnesota | 4:00 pm, Apr. 3, 2021 ×
Sophia Albott, MD, MA
Many have been challenged with emotional dilemmas over the last four months after COVID-19 vaccines first became available in the United States. As states distributed vaccines in different ways and at different speeds, some waiting their turn in line – or deciding whether or not to even get in line – have experienced vaccine anxiety, guilt and shaming.
Sophia Albott, MD, MA, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical School and an adult psychiatrist at University of Minnesota Physicians St. Louis Park Clinic, discusses these three emerging vaccination attitudes and how to manage them as the vaccine access widens to new population
The COVID-19 vaccine is now available to Minnesotans age 16 and older, but that doesn't mean everyone is rushing out to get it, and that is causing vaccine anxiety, guilt and shaming .