{"id":18722,"date":"2021-01-11T18:41:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T18:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2021-01-11T18:41:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T18:41:16","slug":"panel-addresses-skepticism-over-covid-19-vaccines-in-central-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/01\/11\/panel-addresses-skepticism-over-covid-19-vaccines-in-central-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel Addresses Skepticism Over COVID-19 Vaccines In Central Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/5ffc50c54ca6570bc9ef6c62\/panel-addresses-skepticism-over-covid19-vaccines-in-central-oklahoma\">www.news9.com<\/a><br \/>\nBy: Tevis Hillis<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Oklahoma City-County Health Department and other health officials are fighting to calm fears over the COVID-19 vaccines, especially within minority communities.<br \/>\nPanelists said 75% to 85% of Oklahomans need to get the vaccine before life can get back to normal.<br \/>\nFor that to happen, the panel said they will keep having these conversations and sessions to address skepticism and build trust within the black and brown communities.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat makes this different is that we are all in this together. We are all trying to do our best for the health of all of our communities,\u201d said David Conkerite with OU Health.<br \/>\nThe panel also encouraged people with other health issues to get the vaccine because of the higher risk.<br \/>\nThey said the most common side effects are pain, swelling and redness around the injection site.<br \/>\nChills, fatigue and headache are also common.<br \/>\nThe panel advised they&#8217;re seeing stronger side effects if any with the second booster dose.<br \/>\nThe vaccine has been administered to nearly a 100,000 Oklahomans so far.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/5ffc50c54ca6570bc9ef6c62\/news9.com\/story\/5ff5b4a0eb748e0bcc045e61\/osdh-vaccine-registration-portal-goes-live-\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">state health department encourages those to continue to sign up<\/a>\u00a0on their portal to get notified when you can get a vaccine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vaccinate.oklahoma.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to view the appointment scheduler and questionnaire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.news9.com By: Tevis Hillis &nbsp; The Oklahoma City-County Health Department and other health officials are fighting to calm fears over the COVID-19 vaccines, especially within minority communities. Panelists said 75% to 85% of Oklahomans need to get the vaccine before life can get back to normal. For that to happen, the panel said they will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,111,103,112,113],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-covid","category-featured","category-healthcare","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}