A note on vaccine hesitancy: I oversee a small staff of RNs at a youth detention center in NH. Most got their vaccine as soon as they could (myself included), one has even connived a way to get a booster. Two of them, however, steadfastly refuse to get vaccinated. They are not Trumpers, they are not anti-science (one of them has research skills that surpass my own), they are not "millennial brats". In fact, they are the mainstays of their respective shifts, and excellent nurses. At my insistence, they wear masks at all time when at work. They are afraid. This fear is not reasonable, who would trade a case of COVID for a couple of jabs and a day or so of aches and pains? The fear is real, almost primal, and requires understanding. None of my reasoned or emotion-based arguments budged either of them. Will FDA approval make a difference in their attitude towards getting vaccinated? I really hope so, but I doubt it. Would a vaccine mandate help? Honestly, one would likely get vaccinated, one would likely quit. All I can really do is try to help them understand what they fear and how it is driving them to make the decisions they do. Their attitude towards vaccinations is the problem. This attitude is shaped more by what they fear, and less by what and whom they love. My job with them (and by extension all vaccine hesitant people) is to help them see this, and move toward love.