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Newsweek

The Growing Issue of Vaccine Hesitancy

Wednesday, September 15, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht
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Afton Kapuscinski, assistant teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Psychological Services Center, was quoted by Newsweek for the article “Low Vaccination Rates Among Young People Indicate Vaccine Hesitancy is Not Just Political.”

Kapuscinski discussed the growing problem of vaccine hesitancy, saying, “We’ve seen the media’s emphasis on how dangerous COVID-19 is for older adults and we’ve kind of seen that plastered everywhere. I think that the message younger people may get is ‘It’s not that dangerous to me.'”

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