ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Long-term care facilities are nearly COVID-19-free, and more than 71% of seniors have been vaccinated.
Orange County Health officer Dr. Raul Pino said, “We need to aggressively move into the younger segment of the population.”
But that’s easier said than done.
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“There’s no guarantee that we can just go out and live our life normally again, without having to wear a mask,” said 32-year-old Marcos Marrero. “So, I don’t see the point (of) having to get the vaccine and continue to do the same thing.”
Channel 9 spoke with several people in their 30s and younger who do not want the vaccine.
Herbert Bedford, 31, is adamantly against it.
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“To me, I feel like it messes with your genetics, in which in the long term, I don’t know what effects that will do,” he said.
Pino said workplace PODS could help, as would employers incentivizing individuals to get vaccinated.
“If it did have something to do with my employment status, I will definitely consider it at that point,” Marrero said.
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Some believe requiring a vaccine passport for traveling could make a difference, but not for Bedford.
“It would just prevent me from using their business,” he said.
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