I am happy to interrupt the relentless COVID-19 coverage to link to this excellent long article in The Globe and Mail: Opinion: My parents were against vaccines. Getting immunized as an adult shouldn’t have been so hard. Take some time away from the outbreak to read it. Excerpt:
On a grey morning in January, 2019, I walked into my doctor’s office for what I hoped would be a quick, straightforward visit. I sat in the examination room, clenching and unclenching my fists as I waited. My palms were sweating, my heart was racing. I was nervous and my body knew it.
After what felt like hours, the nurse practitioner finally came in. “Well, hello,” she said, a warm smile spreading across her face. “What can I do for you today?”
I shrugged my shoulders, took a deep breath and tried to gather my courage. “I’m 27 and I haven’t been vaccinated since I was three,” I blurted out. “Can you help?”
I watched her smile slowly slip away. “Oh my God,” she said. “Hold on, let me go talk to my supervisor.”
