Vashon Pharmacy owner Young — who’s 33 and has three young daughters — said that he hears more hesitation among his peer group about getting the vaccine than from the older population.
“Those discussions aren’t necessarily that they’re opposed to it,” he said. It’s more that they feel there’s some uncertainty about the long-term side effects of the vaccine, and they wonder if the risk of that unknown is worth it, given how unlikely they are to get really sick from COVID. Long-term side effects, according to the Mayo Clinic, are very rare in vaccines, but it is true that because the clinical trials for these vaccines started only in the
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