Some are motivated by politics, but officials at the White House and researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also expressed concerns about Black Americans who mistrust the medical community and are hesitant about getting the shot because of a long history of abuses such as what happened in Tuskegee.
There's also concern that many unvaccinated Americans don't oppose vaccination, but have trouble making the time to get vaccinated, or haven't felt strongly motivated to do so.But as the Delta variant ravages unvaccinated populations, Moore recommended everyone continue taking precautions to avoid landing in his situation."If I can just help one person not go through the sorrow that I'm feeling," Moore said, "I'm fighting back tears right now because I'm thinking about the people that I've lost.