New York nurse Sandra Lindsay becomes the first person in the US to become vaccinatedPosted on 01/01/2021 5:43:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
California's health workers are refusing to take the new COVID-19 vaccines - with over half of frontline workers at one hospital unwilling to take it, and between 20% and 50% of workers at other facilities who feel the same, according to the Los Angeles Times.New York nurse Sandra Lindsay becomes the first person in the US to become vaccinated
At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health officials.
So many frontline workers in Riverside County have refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that hospital and public officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses, Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said. -LA Times
Yet, as the Times notes, vaccine doubts among healthcare workers have come as a surprise to researchers, 'who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data backing the vaccines.'
Perhaps they were spooked by a viral video of a Tennessee nurse passing out on camera roughly 10 minutes after receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine - which she says was due to an 'over-reactive vagal response' and not related to the jab.
"I’m choosing the risk — the risk of having COVID, or the risk of the unknown of the vaccine," said 31-year-old nurse April Lu of the Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles, who added that she refused to take the vaccine because she wasn't convinced of its safety for pregnant woman. Lu is six months pregnant.
"I think I’m choosing the risk of COVID. I can control that and prevent it a little by wearing masks, although not 100% for sure," she added. Lu isn't alone, with several of her co-workers similarly refusing to take the vaccine.
"I feel people think, ‘I can still make it until this ends without getting the vaccine,’" she said.
The extent to which healthcare workers are refusing the vaccine is unclear, but reports of lower-than-expected participation rates are emerging around the country, raising concerns for epidemiologists who say the public health implications could be disastrous.
A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 29% of healthcare workers were “vaccine hesitant,” a figure slightly higher than the percentage of the general population, 27%.
“Even the name, Operation Warp Speed, draws some concern for people about the rush to push it through,” said Dr. Medell Briggs-Malonson, an emergency medicine physician at UCLA Health who has received the vaccine. Still, she urged her colleagues to do the same. -LA Times
Another healthcare worker, office assistant Nicholas Ruiz at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California says that while he interacts with nurses who deal with COVID-19 patients, he's not taking the vaccine either.
"I feel like the perception of the public with healthcare workers is incorrect. They might think we’re all informed of all of this. They might think that because we work in this environment," said Ruiz, adding "But I know there’s a lot of people that have the same mentality as the public where they’re still afraid of getting it."
To try and convince health workers to take the jab, several hospitals are now showing employees instructional videos and interactive webinars showing staff happily getting vaccinated.
At Laguna Hospital and San Francisco, around 10% of the nursing staff have opted out of the vaccine. Meanwhile, UCLA health reports 7,300 personnel out of 37,000 had received it - with officials noting that "there may be vaccine hesitancy in our workforce."
"We are not asking personnel to decide immediately whether to receive the vaccine. We want to give those offered vaccines adequate time to make a decision, and we hope that personnel will continue to understand that the benefits of vaccination clearly outweigh the risks," the hospital said in a statement.
Read the rest of the report here.
It is also not a percentage of deaths in the general population being shown there. It is a percentage of Covid-19 deaths from all deaths broken down by age groups.
Had it. Have comorbidities. Never knew I had it until I was tested and they found antibodies. Husband and parents tested clean.
Uncle tested positive, has MAJOR comorbidities. Lost his sense of taste and smell, nothing else. Wife, son and grandchild all tested negative.
This whole thing smells.
Not taking their vaccine.
You do it if you want.
You decide for you. I decide for me.
Sorry, I am not buying this. If they are going to lock me down and force me to wear the face diaper anyway, why get the vaccine?
The chart you are using is of dead people by age group with the percentage of dead caused by Covid. Not the probability of dying of Covid. See the difference?
The real risk is incredibly small
99.99+% survival rate for all demographics except the oldest, which is about 94.5%, and almost all of those who died had other pre-existing conditions that made them more likely to die from anything/everything else they could get
Nope. Not taking it. Even that little hobbit Fauci came out and said it can’t prevent against infection. If true, why take it? (I really don’t like that little futher mucker.)
So what happens if one of these healthcare workers who refuses the vaccine gets COVID and passes it on to numerous co-workers or patients at risk?
Would the worker or hospital be liable? And if not, who would want that on their conscience?
It’s one thing if you refuse the vaccine and don’t come into contact with others, esp. those who are sick. It’s another if you closely interact with 100’s of people, many of whom are sick, on a daily basis.
I know three people whose elderly parents in either senior care or the, hospital who got COVID from a staff member and died. It happens quite frequently, even with strict precautions.
Do you have a source to back up that statement?
True, deaths BY Covid are very, very small. Deaths WITH Covid hyped up. In my small circle, 220-250 people I come in contact with ( much,much more if I count everyone at work, about 1200), 7 tested positive, 5 of them had little or no symptoms ( sniffles and one had loss of smell) , 1 ( mid fifties, 360 lbs) had bad headaches and teethe pain, one (84 years old) died and not sure if he died with Covid or died of Covid. Hardly worth taking a questionable vaccine for such a nothing burger threat. I am so tired of the fear, what has become of our people?
Dumbed down in every direction, encouraged on all fronts by every level of government
Having just had the ‘Rona for Christmas...I found that it was not as bad as has been suggested.
For myself and my family the ‘Rona was not as bad as we had been led to believe. My wife (age 50) was sick like the flu for about 5 days starting Christmas Eve and ending Tuesday last. I (age 58) was nominally sick for about 36 hours. For both of my sons aged 12 and 14, they were both similar to myself at about 36-48 hours.
We may be outliers, and I was prepared for a significant adverse event and had made my peace with my own mortality.
The question becomes: what is the rate of adverse events? We know that the over 70 crowd, has significant risk, the 60 and under crowd it is 0.06%.
Does the purported risk offset the cost to everyone else.
The only stinkier thing than the Covid hoax, is the Georgia election results....both have been corrupted beyond comprehension. With all the corruption and lying that has been exposed in every single sector of our society these last four years, the last people I will believe is any government agency, politician, “ science”, “expert”, or left leaning person. The only thing left to believe, study, and act upon is God’s word.
A questionable vaccine for a disease with a 99.7% recovery rate...
This has NEVER been about COVID. It has ALWAYS been about control. This has been a test of the American People.
We have failed the test...miserably.
Everyone does it different. We have quite a few friends that have had it and recovered. All had different levels of it,
Nothing I could put my finger, on just a distant bell.
Did my best to be a good citizen back before Easter. Now do not give a hoot.
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Amen!
Sure. Let the vulnerable population get the vaccine. Let the rest of us gain our natural antibodies.
Above all: I'm a politician and knows what's bestest for you.
Follow me to the French Laundry with explosively high priced menu; follow me to Pelosis' Hair Salon; follow me as the Chicago Mayor Lightfeets gets her hair cut at a salon; follow me as some dipwad told us to stay at home while Skyping from Cabo San Lucas in his hotel.
ALL without masks. Say again, ALL without masks. You dumbass socialists think they are on your side. You're not. They are all on their own side.
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