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Unvaccinated COVID-19 Pneumonia- a family affair 

Trilok Stead1 Michael Hughes2 Frank Fraunfelter2 Vashun Rodriguez3 Latha Ganti2
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1 Trinity Preparatory School, Winter Park, FL
2 Dept. of Emergency Medicine, University of Central Florida and HCA Florida Hospital, Ocala, FL
3 Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center, Lakeland, FL
Submitted: 20 February 2022 | Accepted: 27 February 2022 | Published: 26 June 2022
© 2022 by the Author(s). Licensee Health Psychology Research, USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

The authors present the case of a 15-year-old boy who was infected with COVID-19 by his family and developed pneumonia severe enough to require hospitalization. He was one of several children who required hospitalization, and vaccination was considered by the parent to be “risky” despite this. This case illustrates the complexities of vaccine hesitancy and societal misinformation.

Keywords
Vaccine hesitancy
COVID-19
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The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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