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Up to Half of Health Care Workers in Parts of California Refuse Coronavirus Vaccine
Breitbart ^ | 12/31/2020 | Joel B Pollak

Posted on 12/31/2020 11:17:38 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Up to half of health care workers in some parts of California are refusing to take the coronavirus vaccine, despite scientific evidence that it is safe, leading to a potential surplus of doses and renewed questions about the system for allocating them.

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KEYWORDS: california; refuse; vaccine; workers
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Don't tell Fauci.
1 posted on 12/31/2020 11:17:38 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Same in OH and Houston!


2 posted on 12/31/2020 11:20:34 AM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: G Larry

About 1/3 in E. Tenn. Hospitals


3 posted on 12/31/2020 11:27:51 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: ChicagoConservative27

First, what % of that % are front line medical people like Nurses/Doctors/inhalation therapists and people who have contact with sick patients!

Are the refusers, admin people, who are never near a patient.

How many of those refusing the vaccine have had the CV19 and now have immunity?

Again, the stupid broad stroke idiots in charge, could have been testing the medical people a couple of weeks ago to see if they are immune. Then, offer the vaccine to those who are not immune.

But no, they try to herd everyone into the same batch/herd.


4 posted on 12/31/2020 11:41:32 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

despite scientific evidence that it is safe
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Lost me right there!

Scientific evidence, in this day and age, is nothing more than political science. Who paid for it? What is the political agenda? Who benefits? Who is made to look bad? All of the new criteria that is expected to be part of the conclusion that will be revealed by an independent study.

What results do you want and how much are you willing to pay?

Scientific evidence now goes along with other oxymoron’s of military intelligence and an unbiased court system of justice


5 posted on 12/31/2020 11:53:22 AM PST by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"despite scientific evidence that it is safe"

Can't fool me with that BS line. They used to put formaldehyde in milk a century ago and people were told that line.

6 posted on 12/31/2020 11:53:52 AM PST by roadcat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For the last ten years I couldn’t work as a nurse without a flu shot. There were always some religious kooks and health fanatics that would try to get out of it. Usually the wackos can find some quack who for a hundred dollars would write them an excuse. They cracked down on the phony religious exemptions. One had to prove that they were a member of a real religion that forbids vaccination. It couldn’t be something you made up after reading Popular Mechanics. This is a settled issue. This is the life and the job you chose. They will figure it out when they swipe their name badge and nothing happens. This isn’t about you.


7 posted on 12/31/2020 11:54:17 AM PST by Babba Gi
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To: ChicagoConservative27
With small amounts of exposure in their jobs they probably gained imnunity already. If I were in their shoes I wouldn't be worried about catching COVID but I would probably take the vaccine anyway.
8 posted on 12/31/2020 11:56:32 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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Dr Li-meng Yan on Bannon this AM might differ with you on the vaccine.


9 posted on 12/31/2020 12:04:46 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is their choice not to take the immunization. If that is their choice and they do catch COVID then their insurance companies should refuse to pay their medical bills for that sickness.

Furthermore, after the vaccine is wide spread, health providing and health care facilities should stop hiring staff who make the choice not to take this preventative care.

This should also hold true for all situations where a lot of people are in close proximity to each other, IE, Cruise ship workers and passengers, Airplane crew and passengers, and Train crew and passengers.

If you think there is no precedent for this do some research on TB patients who refuse to take their meds.


10 posted on 12/31/2020 12:46:09 PM PST by oldenuff35
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Not to mention, it’s downright impossible to have ANY scientific evidence about the long-term safety of a vaccine that was just invented.


11 posted on 12/31/2020 12:56:51 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Babba Gi
This is a settled issue

How right you are.

From https://www.fda.gov/media/144414/download

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is a vaccine and may prevent you from getting COVID-19. There is no U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19...

...The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is an unapproved vaccine that may prevent COVID-19. There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19...

Revised: December 2020

...It is your choice to receive or not receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. Should you decide not to receive it, it will not change your standard medical care.

Currently, there is no approved alternative vaccine available for prevention of COVID-19. Other vaccines to prevent COVID-19 may be available under Emergency Use Authorization.

There is no information on the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine with other vaccines...

...The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) is a federal program that may help pay for costs of medical care and other specific expenses of certain people who have been seriously injured by certain medicines or vaccines, including this vaccine. Generally, a claim must be submitted to the CICP within one (1) year from the date of receiving the vaccine. To learn more about this program, visit www.hrsa.gov/cicp/ or call 1-855-266-2427....

The United States FDA has made the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine available under an emergency access mechanism called an EUA. The EUA is supported by a Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) declaration that circumstances exist to justify the emergency use of drugs and biological products during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine has not undergone the same type of review as an FDA-approved or cleared product. FDA may issue an EUA when certain criteria are met, which includes that there are no adequate, approved, available alternatives.

In addition, the FDA decision is based on the totality of scientific evidence available showing that the product may be effective to prevent COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic and that the known and potential benefits of the product outweigh the known and potential risks of the product. All of these criteria must be met to allow for the product to be used in the treatment of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is in effect for the duration of the COVID-19 EUA declaration justifying emergency use of these products, unless terminated or revoked (after which the products may no longer be used).

12 posted on 12/31/2020 12:57:10 PM PST by MurrietaMadman (Keep in mind, the Gates of hell shall not prevail against you.)
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To: oldenuff35

“If you think there is no precedent for this do some research on TB patients who refuse to take their meds.”

That might be a precedent for how we treat people who have an actual illness, but it can’t be a precedent for how we treat healthy people who don’t have an illness.


13 posted on 12/31/2020 12:59:08 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The smart ones will refuse.

With sterility as a listed side-effect, you’d have to be nutz to take the jab....


14 posted on 12/31/2020 1:02:32 PM PST by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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despite scientific evidence that it is safe

Well, they are the pros that deal with this from all aspects. They must have a different take on that.

15 posted on 12/31/2020 1:06:15 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Babba Gi

You will find out when you are working triple shifts ... all they have to do is quit or be fired and you will make scads of overtime pay.


16 posted on 12/31/2020 1:14:58 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There was evidence the hymalayas would melt by 2020. I still have the peer reviewed scientific aryicle
What time zone are they in.


17 posted on 12/31/2020 1:47:32 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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“religious kooks and health fanatics”

God forbid a hospital employee would actually eat properly, maintain their immunity naturally and be an example to their patients. And God forbid they be a good Christian who thinks that injecting crap into a healthy person is neither treatment nor prevention nor healthy. A friend of mine who works at a major local hospital told me about all the stupid fat nurses who laughed at her for packing a healthy lunch, not drinking soda, and not being a fat person herself. Incidentally, she said that most of the patients she has watched over for years are fat, and don’t seem interested in changing that they are fat. And they all seem to have digestive disorders. Some of these same people ridiculed her because she wore a mask instead of taking the seasonal flu shot.

Yeah. I guess I’m with the health fanatics over the food addicted fat people. One would think that nurses would be health fanatics as well, given that they work in health care. But that makes too much sense. Lol!


18 posted on 12/31/2020 2:05:09 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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“There was evidence the hymalayas would melt by 2020. I still have the peer reviewed scientific aryicle”

Boom! haha.

As of this post, you’re officially one of my favorite FReepers!


19 posted on 12/31/2020 2:08:36 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Front-line ‘surplus’ of vaccines that are shelflife sensitive? Democrat-heavy front-line staff who accused Trump of being a murderer with their fancy banners and demonstrations now refusing vaccines themselves?

We don’t have time to hand-hold and cajole people who play games. State-wide, one-time, 3-hour jab session in the morning per hospital (about 450 of them). If you’re a no, get into the line over there for waiver signatures. If you want the vaccine later, you can pay for it out of pocket.

By late afternoon, if a hospital has ‘extra’ because of employee refusal, dispatch those doses to the nursing homes associated with that hospital. The next day, repurpose the drive-in testing sites for drive-in jabs (we’ve tested 2/3rds of the pop enough already), authorize CVS and Walgreens to drive-in jab, and get the innoculating of 65-75yo’s and 75+not-in-nursing homes done now. Tens of thousands of high-risk can be innoculated by dinner time every day. It’s not rocket science.

As usual, California and California medical staff are wasting money we don’t have and time we don’t have. For political reasons and misguided smugness of morally superior idiots.


20 posted on 12/31/2020 3:40:24 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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