"Backlash" against door to door vaccination effort

For me, it would depend on the approach of the person coming to my door as well as the purpose.  If the person was friendly, helpful, and there to answer any questions and give me the vaccine if I wanted, I would be open to it.  If the person was there to be rude, argumentative, nosy or seemed to just be gathering info about who was vaccinated and who wasn't, that would be a different story.  

I think going door to door could help those people who just haven't gotten around to it, or those without transportation.  

😂 I didn’t want to assume your age. Yes, I’m thinking we were the ‘first’ in my high school to get it at school, hence the big deal made about being the first. Two years above me was the founding student year. My high school was founded in the 80s.

The problem with school programs back then was the record keeping, they’re almost impossible to find from that era. Now it’s much better and tied to your Medicare number. I ran into that issue when I moved here and couldn’t find concrete records of vaccines my mum knew I’d had. I had to have them all again, in order to enter the US.

God, I get so sick of your stupidity. 

If I wasn't vaccinated, I would have made an intentional decision at this point. I have had the opportunity with no wait and for free for months. The number of people out there who don't know about the vaccination and its availability have to be minimal - you have to be living under a rock not to. Going door to door is a heavy handed tactic that I would expect very little return from, so I would object to much money being spent that way. It also isn't always safe for the person going door to door.

A better use of government money would be to:

A) Get full FDA approval. That's the biggest argument I still hear. There is a group of people who won't ever get the vaccine under "emergency authorization." The FDA and Congress can work together to make a new full approval path if they need to.

B) Targeted education for specific areas with low vaccination rates. This is especially important in states with large rural areas that may spread more information via word of mouth than by social media. ETA: Having spent time in those areas, in general, they don't trust a stranger's word over their next door neighbor. 

My city and county did evening into night clinics AND 24 hour clinics at a hospital.

it doesn't GET any more 'targeted' than going door to door!!  And no one is saying that 'education' isn't part of what the idea is FOR, for Christ's sake!!  I can't imagine people are knocking on the door, and when someone opens it, they say 'hold out your arm, or else!'  I'm 99.5% certain that the conversation would START with some education, asking if they know about the vaccine, know where they could get it, ask if they have any problems with access or want more information about the vaccine safety, etc., and IF SO, suggestions for how to overcome those issues.  

What is the big, f'ing, hairy deal with this idea of people going to individual houses?   And BTW, the counties in MO with lower vaccination rates ARE the more rural counties.


NEWS FLASH:  NOT EVERYONE EVERYWHERE HAS ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION, OR CAN LEAVE THEIR HOUSE FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER WHENEVER THEY WANT TO.  Someone works nights, because the other spouse works days?  Can't exactly go traipsing off to the Walgreens (which might take 3 bus rides and an hour one-way to get to) in your off hours if you have to watch the baby or the four other kids, or stay home with the elderly grandmother, parent, sick spouse, etc. etc. etc.  GOD, I GET SO SICK OF THIS ATTITUDE!!!  NOT EVERYONE LEADS THE CHARMED LIVES THAT ALL OF US HERE APPARENTLY DO. 

Um, no. Considering the majority of people who are not Trump supporters WANT people who can to get the vaccine.

You would be wrong there. I'm about as left as they come without falling off the edge and if a Republican president/governor/mayor suggested a door-to-door campaign to push vaccines I'd be all for it. Since of course public health is, in theory, non-partisan.

Chicago has actual mobile vaccination services. People are still using it, even many months after eligibility. I read that some people just took a while to decide…or were convinced after a conversation with their physician or visiting health provider.

Related: I read in an article - it was when the Biden administration announced they wanted to get vaccines into doctors offices - that physicians are finding that patients are often much more amenable to the vaccine after having a personal conversation about it. One guy interviewed was a Black primary care physician who reported he has been able to allay his Black patients distrust (based on history) of the vaccination program by answering questions about it during unrelated office visits.

I remember telling my friend, a pediatrician, about the article, and she wasn’t at all surprised. She said that the most successful argument she used when the HPF vaccine came out was that her own children had gotten it. So, there’s something about personal outreach and question-answering, and those connections just might be forged in door to door conversation. (Of course, an education and then a jab would be optimal, but a lot of people don’t regularly go to a doctor…and then there’s the whole refrigeration and expiration thing.)

The door-to-door approach may help the elderly, disabled, or impoverished who lack access to free/affordable/accessible transportation.