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.
Daughter in Law (35) who was diagnosed with Corvid and a week of lite flu symptoms and is now almost symptom free. She got tested again yesterday and showed positive, although asymptomatic. As is now coming out prior symptomatic Covid patients can show the dead virus in tests.
Ex-wife (65) diagnosed on 12/18 through her company policy and started the symptoms the following day. Within 10 days with no special treatment is ready to go back to work.
This is all BS, except for the very elderly and those with comorbitity problems. BTW, what happened to influenza this year? Where are the usual hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths? The experts are dumbfounded.
Possibly the deaths will eliminate the toxic DNA from the gene pool that causes the deadly overreaction of the immune system.
Yikes! I didn’t read the fine print. I wish I could delete my post. Thanks.
How about 1000 slots and one death?
And 999 Loss of Freedom?
Retired medical worker.. there is no way I would let them shoot that into my body..there has been insufficient study of long term effects.. being able to get up and walk after the shot does not mean it is safe
That is my thought as well
YEP
“How many of the seriously sick and dying patients are senior citizens with a lot of other serious health problems?“
HCWs see this answer every day: approaching 100%. That’s why the vax numbers are so low.
Screw. Vaccines. They are stupid. Risky and don’t work
1000 slots and one death? I wouldn’t even play that wheel for a win.
“What do they know that the general public does not?”
I’m content to do the ivermectin regimen but my wife will probably get the vaccine. At least at our ages, any “long-term” side-effects will not have as long a term to raise their ugly heads...
Hi.
I wonder if the military is forced to take it?
If you have ever been on levy for deployment...
5.56mm
My ex-marine buddy tells me that soldiers are generally the first to take newly developed vaccines, especially those who get deployed to far-flung places.
Same here
Bingo: HCWs see this answer every day: approaching 100%. That’s why the vax numbers are so low.
[drops mic]
My state has started using my tax dollars to run TV ads urging me to get the facts, roll up my sleeves and get the vaccine when it’s my turn, “to help my community.” I have no intention of ever getting that vaccine at this point.
I work in a hospital - not front line care giver.
My hospital is part of a 12 hospital system with 28,000 employees overall.
System wide vaccination rate is 53%.
By far the largest group of employees not getting vaccinated are women
of child bearing age.
The vaccination rate for our workers who are not women of child bearing age is around 75%.
Fairly evident what health care workers are worried about.
I’ll be 70 this year - I got vaccinated because I’ve seen a bunch of people
my age die from it.
If I were a younger man - I would pass on getting vaccinated.
Your mileage may vary. Make your own decision.
That genotoxicity studies have been waived for the mRNA vaccines...?
(yeah, yeah, I know the reasoning behind it. I’ve ordered them done them anyway.)
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