How Do You Persuade New Yorkers to Be Vaccinated? Knock on Their Doors.
How Do You Persuade New Yorkers to Be Vaccinated? Knock on Their Doors. As demand shrinks, the city is turning to door-to-door outreach to overcome vaccine skepticism. “Nobody I know took the shot,” one man said. Tomas Ramos, a 34-year-old community organizer, has spent weeks trying to persuade public housing residents to get vaccinated.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times May 20, 2021Updated 8:08 a.m. ET On a recent morning, Tomas Ramos, a community organizer, and two colleagues rode the elevator to the 21st floor of a tower in the Webster Houses, a public-housing project in the Bron...