Vaccines

From mobilization to fragmentation: approaching COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy through the lens of the polio epidemic

Finlay Pilcher is a medical student at the UVM Larner College of Medicine Class of 2024. In the first of a two-part series, she explores her lifelong interest in vaccines and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted her both on a personal level and as a burgeoning healthcare professional.

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A group of seven people including UVM Larner Med medical students and UVM Medical Center employees pose holding brown paper bags with red hearts and the words "Thank You" drawn on them in a dairy barn in Vermont.

The Power of Collaboration

So much of Vermont’s agricultural industry depends on the labor of migrant workers. These workers make up the fabric of our community and yet during the COVID-19 pandemic they are some of the most at-risk and hardest to reach populations. Given the long list of barriers that may dissuade migrant workers from accessing health services and particularly the COVID-19 vaccine, vaccine hesitancy among migrant workers can easily intensify.

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