Science, History and Lived Experience Influences Choices of Clevelanders: Voices on the Vaccine
Mount Pleasant resident Alan Bedingfield understands why fears exist about the new vaccines. But he’s also a “science buff,” and his sister works in cancer research, so he leaned on her expertise and his own personal research before deciding the vaccine was worth the risks. The wider availability of coronavirus vaccines in recent weeks has many Clevelanders weighing whether to get the shots, which can protect against severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Cleveland Documenters interviewed more than 40 friends, family members, neighbors and residents from across the cit...