(Newsweek) A new survey from the National Association of Evangelicals revealed that although 95 percent of evangelical leaders said they would get vaccinated against COVID-19, their congregants overwhelmingly rejected inoculation, the Associated Press reported.
Across the Bible Belt, where virus rates are surging and many Southern and Midwestern worshippers cannot be persuaded by appeals from government leaders and health officials, vaccination rates remain low. Many Blacks and Latinos are also unvaccinated, but many white evangelical anti-vaccine adherents are posing a challenge for health officials.