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She has a pacemaker and tries to be as careful as she can. Sipping tea, Danae Simonski, 84, says she recently learned that some of the ladies in her card group aren't vaccinated.
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Still plenty of holdouts who won't get vaccinatedĪt a Baker City senior center, a cold rain is pounding down outside, steaming up the windows as dozens of folks line up for the buffet lunch service. In towns like Baker City, many are eager to get their boosters as the shots become more widely available this week. Yet seniors in rural areas tend to be a holdout with vaccination rates higher than the national average. This mirrors a trend across rural America where overall COVID vaccination rates continue to lag about 10% lower than in cities. Only about 45% of the 16,000 people in this county have gotten both shots.īut among the 70 and up demographic, it's 25 points higher. "Somehow we have to get at the root of that anger if we are going to face - and we will face - future episodes of this kind."įor now, Baker City seniors like Loennig are kind of on an island, still moving cautiously, avoiding the unvaccinated as much as they can. "They did not have this anger that just seems to overwhelm," Loennig says. Back when she was a girl quarantines were strictly enforced by health authorities.
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So taking precautions and living carefully throughout 2020 until the COVID vaccines became available was not a big deal, Loennig says. In the 1930s when she was 3, she also had to stay indoors for three months after contracting scarlet fever. It's the opposite of what she remembers as a little girl when families had to lock down often during polio. Sitting on an antique chair in the living room of her historic Victorian home, the wall above her adorned with paintings and her 9-year-old granddaughter's art, Loennig says today her town is deeply divided and just like almost everywhere else, COVID is political. Vaccinated rural seniors are living on an 'island' There is plenty of vaccine reluctance, if not outright outright defiance, in Loennig's hometown of Baker City, Ore., the historic first stop on the old Oregon Trail in the heart of the state's deeply rural and conservative eastern side. "I think that if people had been open, some of the anti-vaccine people would have not been so reluctant to get shots." "It has been a secret and so people have not feared it the way we feared polio," she says. Today the laws are also different and health officials are prevented from being as open about who is sick and who is dying from the virus. Today, she believes COVID is still being downplayed, its deaths and illnesses underreported. "It was very frightening for her and very frightening for us."īack then, everyone seemed to know someone with the disease, and when the vaccine became available Loennig remembers people eagerly lining up to get it. "Her arms and her lower body were all in the lung," she recalls. Loennig remembers reading to her while she lay in an iron lung ventilator.
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The most vivid is of a childhood friend who was stricken with polio. For Marge Loennig, 87, the COVID-19 pandemic has stirred up many old memories.