Barbers, stylists help combat vaccine hesitancy in Maryland: 'They have a trust with us' Nada Hassanein and Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY HYATTSVILLE, Md. – Reginald Alson received a surprising phone call from his childhood friend Monday morning. “I signed you up to get the vaccine,” Katrina Randolph, 52, told him. She owns Tré Shadez hair studio in Capitol Heights, Maryland, where Alson sweeps hair. As a certified community health care worker, Randolph had been trying to persuade her friend of 40 years to get his COVID-19 shot. But unnerving stories Alson, 57, heard from friends and family kept him from making his own appointment.