A COVID-19 vaccine still hasn’t emerged — but some are already wary of it
Christina Glover gets a flu shot each year and has always ensured her daughter’s pediatric vaccines are on schedule.
Yet the 36-year-old from the South Side of Chicago said she’d be nervous about getting a COVID-19 vaccine once one emerges and hits the market.
“It’s the fact that it’s new,” Glover said. “You have your right to be concerned about anything — vaccines, any type of medication — you have a right to be concerned with how it’s going to interact with your body. … You want to see the reaction it’s going to have on other people.”
As scientists across the globe race to create a COVID-19 vaccine that is safe and effective, the American public appears sharply divided when it comes to the prospect of getting vaccinated against the new virus, which has so far infected roughly 5.5 million and killed more than 172,000 in the United States.
