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.
100% decline at our house.
The real question to ask is “What do they know that the general public does not?”
I’m not a fan of these T-Tok videos of hospital workers dancing, but if they cut one of themselves doing the “Hells Bells. I’m Not Getting the Gates Shot” dance I might learn to like them.
That the Kung Flu is not that dangerous.
Ours, too. We’ve all had mild cases of covid and don’t need it.
“Trust the science”
But keep an eye on just how those in the medical industry act
RFK, Jr. has a hellova a lot to answer for.
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.’
Yes, they are in tune with the scientific data. And they are not buying it.
Nothing. some of them read the same crackpot internet sites that many here do
They could always employ the I-MASK+ prophylactic protocol, using Ivermectin and over the counter supplements, and not get Covid-19 in the first place.
Let's say you are a 33 year-old male and you had a roulette wheel with 100 slots that had seven slots marked win. Would you play it? If they were marked death, would you still play it?
There has been a increase every year in the number of nurses that are refusing to get the annual flu shot. They weren’t convinced that they were worth the risk. I am not surprised at all, at the fact that frontline nurses and DOCTORS are refusing this shot. In fact, I would have been surprised if there wasn’t a mass refusal. I have been predicting this all along. Glad to see that my fellow nurses (and doctors) are staying true to form.
Good for them!
My Niece is a Cardiac Nurse - she’s not taking this ‘vaccine’ and she had a BABY during this manufactured crisis! She’s advising the rest of us in the family to ‘wait and see.’
The VA keeps pimping a regular flu shot for me. I’ve never taken one, and don’t intend to. Yet.
I DID always insist that Dad got one - once he hit his 80’s. I will probably do the same if I’m still around; I may be 100% ‘Gone Galt’ by then! ;)
Yes, sir. Agreed. I have been saying as much on FR for the past 2 weeks only to be flamed by several FReepers.
I’m amazed that despite their well founded distrust of government they so eagerly accept the government’s word on this one issue.
The real question to ask is “What do they know that the general public does not?”
Bingo:!
That the Kung Flu is not that dangerous!!!!
Their ICU’s may not be overloaded with seriously sick and dying patients as our fear mediots tell us 24/7.
How many of the seriously sick and dying patients are illegal Mexicans who lived with 12-20 people in a garage or a 2 bedroom apartment?
How many of the seriously sick and dying patients are senior citizens with a lot of other serious health problems?
How many of the inner city area patients, who are sick and dying, are elderly Black patients with severe cardiac and pulmonary problems and are/were obese?
So if the health care people aren’t in one of the dangerous categories cited above, many of them are apparently willing to take their chances and not take the vaccines.
Idiots.
Did you notice the fine print at the bottom.
Here let me help :
NOTE: includes all Covid 19 AND DEATHS FROM ALL OTHER CAUSES FOR THE PERIOD FEB 1 THROUGH SEPT 19,2020.
Hmmmm so that means that if you are a male between the ages of 30-49 years old you have a 7.3 percent chance of dying. Not just of Covid, but all causes of death including drug overdoses, suicide, automobile accidents, etc, etc, etc.
Bingo. More fear porn.
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