Evangelicals and Republicans (which have a big overlap) include people who won’t take the vaccine.
45% of White Evangelicals say they definitely/probably won’t get the Covid-19 vaccine, according to polls.
— New Day (@NewDay) April 26, 2021
It could be “fed by a mixture of distrust in government, ignorance about how vaccines work, misinformation and political identity,” says @brikeilarcnn. #RollTheTape pic.twitter.com/YERFSFZfUK
Across white evangelical America, reasons not to get vaccinated have spread as quickly as the virus itself. “If we can’t get a significant number of white evangelicals to come around on this, the pandemic is going to last much longer than it needs to." https://t.co/Azj3QULDHD
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 5, 2021
In what Joy calls a ‘public health issue,’ white evangelical resistance is now an obstacle for the vaccination effort. https://t.co/ej91oijsq2
— The ReidOut (@thereidout) April 6, 2021
Vaccine skepticism is more widespread among white evangelicals than almost any other major bloc of Americans, recent surveys show. The findings amid the pandemic are arousing concern even within evangelical circles. https://t.co/8HP9pgrjCJ
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 5, 2021
Sad! 