UW Health Offers Advice To Overcome COVID-19 Vaccine Needle Fear

UW Health Offers Advice To Overcome COVID-19 Vaccine Needle Fear Vaccines are critical to our efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic quickly, but the vaccines have one unavoidable barrier for many — a roughly one-inch needle. About 20 to 30 percent of the United States population ages 20 to 40 years old have a fear of needles in medical procedures, also called trypanophobia, according to a