Department of Medicine

“We’ve just had so much infection and so much viral replication going on throughout the world, that eventually there’s going to be a change that’s going to be meaningful and that’s really what we’re starting to see,” said David Beuther, an associate professor of medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine].

There is not any data on the prevalence of vaccine guilt, but Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at University of Colorado’s Anschutz campus, surmises that many people who have already received the COVID-19 vaccine probably feel like their doses could have gone to someone more deserving. “I think it’s a really common phenomenon,” he says.

“We do have life-saving vaccines. These vaccines are important to saving individuals but they are also important to reduce the transmission” Carlos Franco-Paredes, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said. “For the Latino community, I would like to inform, I would like to inform everyone, as a healthcare worker, as a physician, as a Latino physician, I believe in these vaccines.”