The Crucial and Urgent Role of Family Physicians in Increasing COVID-19 Vaccinations
- 1 April 2022
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal
- Vol. 115 (4) , 280-281
- https://doi.org/10.14423/smj.0000000000001377
Abstract
At the time of writing (August 2021), Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida each recorded >500,000 new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, making the southern United States the epicenter of the epidemic.1 At present, 85% of the public trust their family physicians as reliable sources of information on COVID-19.2 This editorial serves as an urgent plea to family physicians to...This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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