Undertakers, rabbis join global fight promoting COVID shots
A doctor gives a man a COVID-19 vaccination inside St. Petri Church in Chemnitz, Germany, on December 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A year after the COVID-19 vaccine became available, traditional public health campaigns promoting vaccination are often going unheeded. So an unconventional cadre of people has joined the effort.
In Germany, Lutheran pastors are offering COVID-19 shots inside churches. In Israel’s science-skeptical haredi community, trusted rabbis are trying to change minds. And in South Africa, undertakers are taking to the streets to spread the word.
The funeral directors’ message: “We’re burying too many people.”
