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Athens News Matters: COIVD-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Religion - Is There a Correlation?

WUGA | By Alexia Ridley,
Grant Blankenship
Published October 8, 2021 at 2:39 PM EDT
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/94447

There’s plenty of data about how vaccines for COVID-19 save lives. But for many, science is not the first place they turn to when making decisions about whether or not to be vaccinated. For some, the case for vaccination has to be a religious one.
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Alexia Ridley
Alexia Ridley joined WUGA as Television and Radio News Anchor and Reporter in 2013. When WUGA TV concluded operations, she became the primary Reporter for WUGA Radio. Alexia came to Athens from Macon where she served as the News Director and show host for WGXA TV. She's a career journalist and Savannah native hailing from the University of Michigan. However, Alexia considers herself an honorary UGA DAWG!
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Grant Blankenship
Grant came to public media after a career spent in newspaper photojournalism. As an all platform journalist he seeks to wed the values of public radio storytelling and the best of photojournalism online.
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