How Doctors in South LA County Increase Patients' COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence [chcf.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 11/15/2112:52 PM

By Aisling Carroll, Photo: Dr. Atul Nakhasi, California Health Care Foundation, November 2, 2021

A patient was on the phone with Atul Nakhasi, MD, internist at Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Outpatient Centerin Los Angeles, after a routine surgery in the summer of 2021. She was recovering well, and she didn’t want anything to mess with that. The vaccine for COVID-19 might, she thought.

Similar to the hundreds of conversations he’s had with other patients, staff, friends, and strangers, Nakhasi told her the vaccine was not only very safe and would not impair her recovery, but it would also help save her life.

In recent months, an overwhelming majority of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Los Angeles County’s four safety-net hospitals were unvaccinated, he told her. The patient listened to him describe the reality on the ground, but she was still unsure, asking questions and reckoning with her choice.

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