COVID-19 hasn’t’ disappeared from rural America even though conditions are improving. Dr. Mohammed Yassin (Yahs-SEEN) is the Director of Infection Control at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He says the waves of COVID-19 hit rural America hard.
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He says some rural residents are waiting to get COVID and counting on natural immunity. Yassin says that strategy is risky.
You Cut #2 :49 OC…”viral infection.”
Yassin says even though things have improved, this is no time to let down our guard and not get the vaccine.
Cut #3 :47 OC…”protect ourselves.”
Rural America has shown a lot of hesitancy to get the vaccination. There’s a lot of wrong information out there, and he says it’s important to get your information from a reliable source.
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For more information, go to vaccines.gov.
Submitted by Chad Smith
Audio provided as a service to farm broadcasters by the Department of Health and Human Services
Audio with Dr. Mohammed Yassin, Medical Director for Infection Prevention, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
