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Do Catholics have to get the COVID-19 vaccine?
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Do Catholics have to get the COVID-19 vaccine?
Vaccines protect the common good, but if you choose not to get one your moral obligation doesn’t end there.
Some people are expressing hesitancy about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. There are a variety of reasons for this, including incomplete or incorrect information regarding the vaccines themselves and a lack of trust in the safety of the vaccines.
Based on a sad history of the relationship between African Americans and the health care industry, for example, many in minority communities simply don’t trust that the vaccines they receive will help them. Others believe that their rapid development and testing, which normally would have taken several years, means that important steps have been missed.