Commentary: Vaccine-hesitant people can still change their minds. As a doctor, I’m seeing it happen
by Prabhava Bagla, Los Angeles Times
Jan 04, 2022
2 minutes
Last month, I saw an elderly patient with underlying chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who was admitted to the hospital with a bone stuck in his throat. He underwent endoscopic removal the same day; a routine pre-procedure COVID-19 test came back negative.
The next day, going over his discharge instructions, I asked if he was vaccinated against COVID-19 yet. He was not, and the room got awkwardly silent
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