It s almost paradoxical that they don t want to get vaccinated, Fauci said during an interview with CBS This Morning. So that s the thing that we ve got to work on. We can t be pejorative to them. We ve got to try and convince them why it s so important to get to where they want to be and where I want to be and where all public health officials want to be, would be to get vaccinated.
Fauci s comments come as President Joe Biden s deadline arrived for states to expand their vaccine eligibility requirements. Biden asked states to open appointments to all U.S. adults by Monday.
It s almost paradoxical that they don t want to get vaccinated, Fauci said during an interview with CBS This Morning. So that s the thing that we ve got to work on. We can t be pejorative to them. We ve got to try and convince them why it s so important to get to where they want to be and where I want to be and where all public health officials want to be, would be to get vaccinated.
Fauci s comments come as President Joe Biden s deadline arrived for states to expand their vaccine eligibility requirements. Biden asked states to open appointments to all U.S. adults by Monday.
WORCESTER The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce is getting to the heart of the matter concerning the Heart of the Commonwealth. Worcester. A city with heart, history and promise, says the narrator at the start of a 30-second TV commercial extolling many attributes of Worcester that the chamber will run in markets including Boston, Providence and Springfield beginning Monday morning. We think it s an investment that helps the region in a variety of ways, said Timothy P. Murray, president and CEO of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, about its TV advertising blitz initially planned to run from Monday until May 12.
All Massachusetts residents age 16 and older can now sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine, but that doesn’t mean everyone eligible will want the shot.
In the coming weeks, state public health officials expect demand to slow down, and the hardest push, many believe, will be reaching out to those who are reluctant. That includes Republican men, who were some of the most hesitant in recent national polling.
Town clerk and librarian Jodie Paradis has seen this hesitation in Russell, a town of just under 2,000 residents in southwestern Massachusetts. Russell is 96% white and mostly Republican. In 2020, nearly 60% of voters there supported Donald Trump in the presidential election, the largest percentage in the commonwealth.