Steve Edwards, the president and CEO of a health care system in Missouri, is troubled that health experts cannot seem to inspire more people to get vaccinated in his area, which is being hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Edwards, of Springfield-based Cox Health, told CNN on Friday that his system has had 534 Covid-19 patients die, with more than 100 of those deaths after vaccines became widely available. None of the patients who died were vaccinated.
He is desperately trying to figure out how to get through to people. If I knew how I was missing the mark, we could correct and change, he told CNN s Alisyn Camerota. The community needs 80 to 90% of people to get immunity either from getting inoculated or catching the virus, he said.
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Posted: Jul 24, 2021 4:30 PM
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Steve Edwards, the president and CEO of a health care system in Missouri, is troubled that health experts cannot seem to inspire more people to get vaccinated in his area, which is being hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Edwards, of Springfield-based Cox Health, told CNN on Friday that his system has had 534 Covid-19 patients die, with more than 100 of those deaths after vaccines became widely available. None of the patients who died were vaccinated.
Steve Edwards, the president and CEO of a health care system in Missouri, is troubled that health experts cannot seem to inspire more people to get vaccinated in his area, which is being hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Edwards, of Springfield-based Cox Health, told CNN on Friday that his system has had 534 Covid-19 patients die, with more than 100 of those deaths after vaccines became widely available. None of the patients who died were vaccinated.
He is desperately trying to figure out how to get through to people. If I knew how I was missing the mark, we could correct and change, he told CNN s Alisyn Camerota. The community needs 80 to 90% of people to get immunity either from getting inoculated or catching the virus, he said.
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The excuses range from the merely false to the absurd. The shots don’t work. They impair fertility. They’ll alter your DNA. They’ll magnetize you. They actually spread the virus.
Unvaccinated Americans cite a litany of myths to explain their hesitance to get shots, confounding local health officials battling yet another surge of coronavirus cases fueled by the more transmissible delta variant. Inside the White House, the concern is so acute that President Joe Biden has publicly lashed out at Facebook Inc. for helping to spread disinformation.