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Collected Item: “COVID-19 Has Hit The Amish Community Hard. Still, Vaccines Are A Hard Sell”

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COVID-19 Has Hit The Amish Community Hard. Still, Vaccines Are A Hard Sell

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news article

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Officials are having a hard time convincing Amish populations to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This has been attributed to cultural differences and it's believed they'll start getting the vaccine once it's been around for some time. In the meantime, there are fears that the communities will have more COVID-19 outbreaks.

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Amish, Ohio, vaccine, hesitancy, COVID-19, rural,

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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/28/990986056/covid-19-has-hit-the-amish-community-hard-still-vaccines-are-a-hard-sell

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Anna Huntsman

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2021-04-28
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