I am quoting Best Ima’s post earlier in this thread:
“It has been going around our community like crazy in the last few weeks. The schools over here are giving it out but poeple were so confused they didnt know if they should give it to their children or not. My 7 year old daughters best friend just came down with it a few days ago and she is in very critical condition. Theyre switching her to the city now there are better machines for her there. Please everyone daven for her she needs our tefilot. Sarah Miriam bat Tamar. Bezrat Hashem this horrible virus should stop very soon. “
“The schools were giving it out, but people were so confused that they just didn’t know…..”
The major hospitals, epidemiologists, and virologists, immunologists, and research physicians have been recommending this vaccine for quite some time. Yet, because of the fear-mongering and disinformation out there, people “just didn’t know”.
The Yeshiva community is exceptionally susceptible to this kind of fear-mongering and misinformation, because of the relative lack of secular education and the distrust of the medical community (being composed mostly of people unlike themselves).
We see the consequences in this all the time in the Hareidi communities in Israel, where distrust of the “medina” and the medical community makes them (the Hareidim) one of the communities in which we are most likely to find infectious diseases.
By all means, daven and say tehillim for this poor girl and all others who are in danger form this and other diseases. Say those tehillim with special kavanah–when you are waiting for you and your children to be inoculated in the doctors’ office.