COVID vaccine hesitancy is linked to educational level, study says

INDIANAPOLIS — No one thought persuading everyone in the United States to embrace a new, not fully approved vaccine was going to be easy.

The last eight months, though, have proven the task is even more difficult than once thought. Initially public health officials worried about communities of color being resistant to the vaccine. Reality has borne out that concern to a certain extent but other links have arisen as well, from politics to past medical history.