hesitancy
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The rising number of cases comes as vaccine hesitancy in the US has increased in recent years, leading to lower immunisation rates.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
"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
The press was an enormous lime green contraption, rollers and conveyor pulleys in a cast-iron housing; it started with the hesitancy of a nineteenth- century locomotive and shrieked and bleated while it ran.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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
But participants learn about their own hesitancies in the process and test out new strategies.
From Forbes ● Sep. 23, 2014
Instead of the reluctances and attractions, the hesitancies and aspirations, the preliminary and common conflagrations which are the beginnings, as they are also the sacraments, of love, abruptly they were one.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
