Do you think hope it is real?
I mean, do you think
it's a serious threat?
Oh yeah, I definitely.
I mean, it's we all know
somebody that's had it. Jenny
Pasternack of Sherwood OR
is sure Covid is serious.
She's also just as sure she won't
be getting the vaccine. No, I
do not plan to get it.
My husband does not plan to get it
either. Recent polls show 25% of
Americans remain vaccine hesitant,
and the reasons run the gamut.
The more people who don't get the vaccine,
the longer it takes to reach herd immunity.
Which experts now believe
may not happen in the US.
For Jenny, there hasn't been
enough long term studies.
I don't think short term. I want
to think long term. And what are the long
term side effects and that cannot only
thing we can do is wait and
see you've been hearing the
headlines that we are not going
to reach the promised herd immunity.
Earlier this week Vacation View
Sunrise crew talked about vaccine hesitancy,
but now we're reaching those people
who either are hesitant or are. Sure,
not going to get the vaccine. There were
hundreds of comments why people
were either hesitant or flat out.
Refusing John wrote.
The problem is that there is
really no incentive to get
the vaccine vaccinated or not.
You still share the same restrictions
with those who aren't vaccinated.
That's a common sentiment,
but it's not true.
John wrote that before the CDC said
that people who are vaccinated do
not have to wear a mask inside,
and Governor Brown announced
all counties with.
A 65% vaccination rate of people
16 or older can move to lower risk.
That means more things will be open,
and Robbie who wrote it still
in the trial phase.
How does anyone know what they're
really getting injected with?
This is misleading.
All three covid vaccines in the
US completed the three phases of
clinical testing before being
approved for emergency use by the FDA,
and on wrote I got the first
vaccine but didn't get the second
one because of hearing a recall was
going around and people dying from it.
Blood clots this is also false.
The JJ vaccine was briefly paused after
reports of injury or death from blood clots.
After people got the vaccine.
This happened to 28 people,
three including a woman in Oregon, died.
Although officials have not determined
if the vaccine was the cause,
more than 8.7 million people
received the shot.
The vaccine was never recalled.
I've
been hearing a lot of misinformation. Cliff
Coleman is an associate professor
of family medicine at OHSU.
He hears from patients who
either want more information.
Or wholeheartedly believe
misinformation, but the people
who are really adamant that they
don't want it are often citing
information that's just factually
incorrect, and a lot of vaccine
misinformation starts and spreads on line.
A recent report by Media Matters found 110
active anti vaccine groups on Facebook.
The groups have 10s of thousands
of members and spread debunked and
false claims about the vaccine media
matters found even when Facebook
recently shut down a super group.
New subgroups with thousands of members.
Papa right back
up and it just shows once again
that Facebook's enforcement
strategies here are very limited and
inconsistent and largely ineffective.
Unfortunately, and controlling
the spread of anti vaccine
misinformation on the platform, the
Center for Countering Digital
Hate found anti VAX groups have
58 million followers across the US
in the UK and 65% of the vaccine
misinformation shared on line.
Originates with 12 individuals and
the networks they have around them.
The doctors have
the harder job because doctors have to
persuade people to go and actually get off
their sofas and go and take the vaccine.
All the anti vax industry does is it floods
people with misinformation to make them
hesitate and that's all they have to do.
This is an asymmetric battle.
Doctors have to make will take an
action which will save their lives.
The anti VAX industry have to
make people go well, I'm not sure.
And that really is done by flooding
misinformation into the zone.
But again,
it misinformation is not
the cause of all hesitancy.
Some people want more information,
some just need more time.
So what is the answer?
Is there anything that can change
someone's mind once it's made up?
But as of right now,
no. There there is nothing
anybody could say to me.
If this was like Ebola,
I'd be like, Oh yeah, Oh yeah,
I would get them back.
I would get a vaccine for Ebola.
'cause you know you're like a.
50 chance so no,
I'm not there is nothing anyone
really could say on this one.
But physicians like Doctor
Coleman are more optimistic.
He believes it will take one
on one conversations between
vaccine hesitant people and
their doctors to turn the tide
of hesitancy. So really,
the approach is to keep an open mind.
Recognize that differences and
understanding occur. So dividing
administration is now moving away
from the mass vaccination sites and
sending more vaccines to doctors.
That means more conversations
about why people are hesitant
and maybe more shots and arms.
People don't have the same kind of
background training that folks who
work in healthcare necessarily do.
And in trying to be non judgmental in.
Creating an opening a space
for a dialogue is really
the key. I'm Kristin Severins KGW news.
The history good job.