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49 percent of Republican men won’t get vaccinated. These women are trying to change their minds. | The Lily

Tanya Garcia plans to get her coronavirus vaccine as soon as she is eligible — regardless of what her husband says.

Garcia, a 24-year-old in Buckeye, Ariz., has been hearing firsthand horror stories about the coronavirus since March last year, when her older sister, a nurse, started caring for patients at the hospital. Garcia heard about the patients who died alone and the families who watched them pass away on Zoom. Then the virus came closer: In October, Garcia tested positive, along with her younger sister, her mother and her newborn daughter.

Now most of Garcia’s family has been vaccinated. Her husband is the exception, she said: He doesn’t plan to get the vaccine.

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Source: 49 percent of Republican men won’t get vaccinated. These women are trying to change their minds. | The Lily