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Soon after COVID-19 vaccines were first developed, health authorities estimated that as much as 40 to 50 percent of the population would be reluctant to get it. However, vaccination clinics in the San Joaquin Valley are already reporting a lull in demand, even though nearly 70 percent of the local population remains unvaccinated. In Fresno County, so many appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine went unfilled last week that health officials redistributed 28,000 doses to other counties, and they’ve reduced their weekly vaccine request to the state by nearly two-thirds. So what’s given rise to such a slowdown? For some communities, it comes down to barriers that reduce access to some of the Valley’s larger, stationary vaccination clinics; but within others, there’s also significant vaccine hesitancy, primarily among whites, adults age 30-49, rural over urban residents, and Republicans rather than Democrats. This week’s COVID update examines locals’ reasons for not getting the vaccine,
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