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Avoiding the shot makes no sense

By Andrew I. Fillat, Henry Miller
Published December 20, 2021 4:31pm ET
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Avoiding the shot makes no sense
Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN, Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019. | (Vernon Bryant/AP)

Vaccine hesitancy isn’t entirely unsurprising.

Public health initiatives and the governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been at various times ham-handed, inconsistent with knowledge at the time, misleading, contradictory, overly coercive, lacking compassion, and power-seeking.

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