COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among women leaving jails: A qualitative study. 2021

Mugur V Geana, and Sherri Anderson, and Megha Ramaswamy
Center for Excellence in Health Communication to Underserved Populations, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.

In many correctional facilities across the United States, COVID-19 vaccine refusal rates are as high as 50%. Most women leaving jails have low SES, health literacy, and mistrust of governmental institutions, thus exacerbating existing health disparities and making women leaving jail vulnerable. Data from 25 interviews with recently released women suggest that interventions to promote vaccines to this population will have to address health education and mitigate mistrust, misinformation, and conspiracy theories.

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