Among the Vaccine Skeptics

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Initially, Jonathan Damato didn’t just plan to get vaccinated — he was actually excited about it.

Damato, a 41-year-old New York City paramedic, spent the past year on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Going to work each day meant not only exposing himself to Covid-19, but also his wife and five children. While he wanted to keep his family safe, he also wanted to help end a pandemic that kept his children home from school and much of the world in a virtual shutdown.

Then one day Damato received a text from his aunt. She sent him a link to a YouTube video that was basically a greatest-hits compilation of Covid vaccine misinformation. After watching it and then doing a little more research on his own, Damato was no longer so sure about getting a shot.