A day at a St. Louis County walk-in clinic shows why some vaccine holdouts are changing their minds

BERKELEY, Mo. — Charlotta Brooks had gone to four funerals in the past three weeks for loved ones who died from COVID-19. She lost her 81-year-old grandma as well as two cousins and her son's godmother, all in their 40s. "Right around my age," said Brooks, 43. Last Wednesday, Brooks walked four blocks from her home in Berkeley to the walk-in vaccination clinic at the John C. Murphy Health Center, headquarters for the St. Louis County Department of Health, and got her first dose. She had been afraid to get the vaccine, having heard claims it was risky and that she could end up in an emergency r...