08/26/2021

FDA Approval Not Swaying Some Vaccine Holdouts

Skeptics waiting on FDA regulators now say they have new doubts

For five months, Chris Brummett has ignored his wife’s pleas that he get a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. He cares even less that federal regulators finally issued a long-awaited approval for one of them.

“My wife is on me all the time to do it,” said Brummett, 43, from Jackson County, Ind., who followed news this week of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine. But Brummett, a libertarian critical of both the Biden and Trump administrations, said he’s struggling to trust any government messages about the virus. “I guess, for now, it’s a no for me.”

Tyler McCann, 24, of Augusta, Ga., also remains a skeptic, citing the low risk of complications for people his age. “If I get it,” McCann says of COVID-19, “I will blame myself entirely. It’ll be my fault. But until then… I don’t see the necessity, and with how politicized it’s been, I’m just annoyed with it.”

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