hesitancy
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"When you think about the people who are choosing not to vaccinate their children, these are also the people that have medical hesitancy in general," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Recent outbreaks have taken root in places where vaccine hesitancy is common, including among Mennonites in Texas and evangelical Slavs in South Carolina.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Everyone knows there’s a lot more coming, and so I think there’s been a hesitancy to jump in with both feet here,” said Travis King, head of investment-grade corporates at Voya Investment Management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
On top of that hesitancy about the real effects of returning to the SAT is the fact that not all UC professors agree it is impossible for lacking students to catch up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
A decade of invisibility had done away with any hesitancy she might once have felt about such flagrant staring.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Many medical professionals, like experts at Seattle’s Glow Medispa, are now working even harder to clear up misinformation and to assuage common hesitancies.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
Public life has been gripped by a sense we won’t go back to what we did before, thanks to health hesitancies or simply because we got used to doing things a new way during shutdowns.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
"There’s different kinds of hesitancies, right? So I don’t think that there’s much excuse to not know the information available anymore. Hence that’s why I think it should be mandatory at this stage," he explained.
From Fox News ● Aug. 11, 2021
To identify the roots of these beliefs and hesitancies, Amin and Omer went deeper than most other research on fear of childhood vaccines.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2019
Kate, quivering for her, seeming indefinably to be a part of her, suffering at the hesitancies of the audience and shaken with their approval, was glad when it was all over.
From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
