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US doctors lose patience as they confront vaccine hesitancy
Seattle Times ^ | July 29, 2021 | Rebecca Torrence

Posted on 08/01/2021 2:22:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob

...The pandemic, these professionals say, is entering a dark new phase. Nearly half the nation rejects vaccines, goes maskless and sees virus restrictions as an assault on liberty. As cases rise again, scientists and doctors are grappling with the exasperating realization that the country has the means to tame this virus, but large parts of the population reject them.

"How much more energy and effort can the nation exert to save even more lives when Americans, given the options and tools to save themselves, aren’t doing it?” said James Hodge, director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University. “That’s a very different pandemic we’re facing.”

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Christopher Mason, who studies the genomic sequencing of COVID variants at New York’s Weill Cornell Medical Center, said... this resistance has driven colleagues to leave the field, exhausted by the past year and frustrated with the public’s rejection of vaccines.

“It’s the duration of the pandemic and the constant workload, but also the feeling of society’s disrespect of a vaccine that can prevent the very pandemic that we’re in,” he said. “Knowing that there’s a way to prevent it and they’re still saying ‘no thanks’ is just maddening to people working in health care.”

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Contact tracing has also seen significant improvements. But Larry Jones, executive director of the Missouri Center for Public Health Excellence, said that as cases increase, those infected become more difficult to identify, and tracing less effective...

“I keep hearing over and over, when we call and say ‘have you been exposed,’ they hang up the phone,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bs; covid19; fakenews; fakescience; vaccinehesitancy
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To: DoodleBob
Two questions for US doctors:

1) Why are you giving vaccinations to your patients since trust is an issue?

And...

Federal PREP Act Liability Protections for COVID-19 Vaccination

B) Why is that the people you're do impatient with ate the ONLY ones left with NO recourse in the event of injury or death?

To wit, from the link...

The Federal PREP Act provides liability protection to local health departments and their employees for “Recommended Activities” associated with “Covered Countermeasures” such as administering FDA-authorized vaccines. The “sole exception” to the PREP Act’s liability protection is for death or injury caused by a Covered Person’s willful misconduct. Absent willful misconduct, an injured party’s only remedy is to seek compensation through the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). Thus, the Federal PREP Act provides liability protection to local health departments and their employees for prescribing and administering FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines as well as for supervising and administering COVID-19 vaccination programs.

IOW, we're screwed.

Note to our de facto NHS: You can take your impatience and shove it up your collective ***.

41 posted on 08/01/2021 2:55:53 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Skywise

‘’Tokyo and Britain and Israel and even CHY-NA have far FAR better vaccination rates and their infection rates are skyrockteing’’

Also California, New York, and Massachusetts...as reported by local/state media.


42 posted on 08/01/2021 2:56:31 PM PDT by ManardG
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To: DoodleBob

The feeling is mutual. My doctors office now only sees “well” patients.

What a bunch of sissies.


43 posted on 08/01/2021 2:56:52 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: mewzilla

1) Why AREN’T you offering vaccinations to your patients since trust is an issue?

Last I checked, NYS was still not allowing primary care providers to offer CoupFlu vaccinations.

WTH is that, eh?


44 posted on 08/01/2021 2:57:35 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: DoodleBob

Sounds silly. If half are vaccinated and more have antibodies, wouldn’t it be unlikely to enter the darkest phase?


45 posted on 08/01/2021 2:57:56 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: lee martell

My wife’s sister is in a hospital for stroke. Wife has been talking to Drs. nearly every day. They know that the vaccines are causing problems, but have no way of proving it. Because the drug cos. can’t be held liable, for one thing.


46 posted on 08/01/2021 3:01:30 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’ve got an appointment scheduled for next week to get Ivermectin, and take the quercetin/zinc/Vit k,c,d, b protocol for prophylaxis- but want Ivermectin on hand just in case.

I will ask about getting HCQ as well.


47 posted on 08/01/2021 3:02:08 PM PDT by datura (The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
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To: Turbo Pig
I suspect that a violent response is EXACTLY what they want. Some canvasser gets killed by a "gun nut," Bidet cries crocodile tears and new liberty-crushing gun control et al is enacted by an enfeebled legislature.

Narcissists LOVE attention. They hate it when we ignore them, or hang up on them. That why this article is so wonderful - they're blinking.

48 posted on 08/01/2021 3:02:20 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“” Before CDC apparently pulled the VAERS death count, it stood at around 11,000.””

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These folks still track it.

https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data

current dead 11,940 as of July 23.

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49 posted on 08/01/2021 3:02:38 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: DoodleBob

Here is the potential they face. This is FRANCE!

UNBELIEVABLY huge crowds (millions! across the country) — MUST see videos — in the streets protesting France’s mandated vaccines. This has been going on for a long time.


Massive Crowds Protest Vaccine Passports And Mandatory Vaccinations All Over France - videos.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/massive-crowds-protest-vaccine-passports-mandatory-vaccinations-france/


50 posted on 08/01/2021 3:03:48 PM PDT by ManardG
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To: frogjerk

they have been brainwashed by 24/7/365 stress and panic and have such narrow tunnel vision

everything is covid to them

they’ve been put in a pressure cooker too long and they cant think or see reality


51 posted on 08/01/2021 3:05:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DoodleBob

Getting a COVID vaccination is a personal decision. Nobody should be forced to get it. And if they get COVID well that’s their decision too.


52 posted on 08/01/2021 3:07:29 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: TLI

Thanks!


53 posted on 08/01/2021 3:08:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Captain Compassion

A variant that is more lethal is not science!


54 posted on 08/01/2021 3:13:41 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: DoodleBob

You mean the same doctors who are proposing that sex not be disclosed on birth certificates? The same doctors who keep denying proven antiviral treatments to their patients? The same doctors who will let patients languish in the waiting room so they can be romanced by the detail guy or gal? Those doctors. PFFFFTTTTTTT.


55 posted on 08/01/2021 3:28:13 PM PDT by lastchance
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To: DoodleBob

“How much more energy and effort can the nation exert to save even more lives when Americans, given the options and tools to save themselves, aren’t doing it?” said James Hodge, director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University. “That’s a very different pandemic we’re facing.”

I agree. Stop.


56 posted on 08/01/2021 3:30:08 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: DoodleBob

“Christopher Mason, who studies the genomic sequencing of COVID variants at New York’s Weill Cornell Medical Center, said... this resistance has driven colleagues to leave the field, exhausted by the past year and frustrated with the public’s rejection of vaccines.”

A vaccine sounds like wonderful idea. Let me know when one is available.


57 posted on 08/01/2021 3:30:32 PM PDT by lastchance
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To: M.K. Borders

“What has happened is that the American population has become essentially ungovernable and the Government can thank itself for that.”

It’s been going on for a very long time. Most people did not know it. Look at Snowden’s revelation on illegal spying on Americans. People who traditionally believed in “law and order”, the so-called Richard Jewels of the country who believed in their institutions and there is nothing to fear in the truth ... one day woke up and see that they have been played, and are despised by the givernment as well.

Trump’s greatest accomplishment was he exposed the swamp, except he did not know when he said that he was going to drain the swamp it really is an ocean of corruption, deceit and lies ... It is quite sobering, and the givernment is reaping what it has sown.


58 posted on 08/01/2021 3:32:41 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: DoodleBob

What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.


59 posted on 08/01/2021 3:33:04 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Bernard

If they call me, then they’ll get “Farting in the library” guy from my Robokiller app.


60 posted on 08/01/2021 3:33:56 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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