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ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. (AP) — In Plain community newspapers, the obituaries for Amish and...

Experts: There is no way to track how many Amish and horse-and-buggy Mennonite families have received their vaccinations.

“In some cases, they would say things like: ‘I knew I was sick. I didn’t have to go and tell someone I was sick.’ Or another concern of: ‘Well, if it turns out I’m sick, I’m going to be told to do this and this that I don’t want to do.’” Donald Kraybill, senior fellow emeritus at the Young Center, said the vaccination decisions among the Plain community are as diverse as the 550 Amish congregations in Pennsylvania, because that’s where the decisions are made. “I know of some congregations where they had an onset of infections back in last summer and last fall, and many...

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In Plain community newspapers, the obituaries for Amish and Old Order Mennonites rose during the pandemic, just as they did in other communities. That's how Steven Nolt identified COVID-19's impact on the Plain communities across Pennsylvania because, beyond that, there are no reliable methods for measuring how many people in those communities contracted the virus or received the vaccination. "We don’t have data because Amish folks were, generally speaking, not interested in being tested, for a number of reasons," said Nolt, interim director of Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Ana...