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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

CDC: 11,940 DEAD 618,648 Injuries and 1,175 Unborn Babies DEAD Following COVID-19 Shots.


61 posted on 08/01/2021 3:35:32 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I am concerned about the vaccine triggering or masking a return of my non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Also the bio distribution studies show bone as a target area. The chemo makes leukemia a higher risk now. Strange we think about it but at different perspective.


62 posted on 08/01/2021 3:41:55 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative?)
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To: DoodleBob

Most of my doctors have privately recommended against getting vaccinated.


63 posted on 08/01/2021 3:43:59 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: frogjerk
I keep reading headlines the last few days that Florida has the most cases in a day and the hospitals are in chaos being so full.

And yet I speak to my primary care doctor and she said she only has two patients with mild covid symptoms and nobody hospitalized.

Throughout this pandemic, I have not known a single person who had it and nobody who died from it.

And I also read that the CDC can't test for the Delta variant yet but claims all the new cases are Delta. WTF?

I read that it's not the unvaccinated that are the problem but that the vaccinated are coming down with the covid at a high rate and that in reality, the vaccinations are worthless. They might as well be placebos with side effects.

This leads me to believe that none of what's in the news is true and it's all fear-mongering propaganda.

If the poor doctors are weary of the covid pandemic, just think about how the public feels when they are subjected to the government's mandates with no end in sight.

64 posted on 08/01/2021 3:44:50 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: max americana

Yep.

We are about one inch away from this sick and twisted madness:

“Did you get jabbed?”

“HTF is that your business?”

“Well, you are under arrest then!”

“Uh, WTF for??”

“Because I said so, that’s why!!”


65 posted on 08/01/2021 3:46:40 PM PDT by Prole ( )
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To: DoodleBob

For any doctor who won’t let me try HCQ or ivermectin for early treatment….

Talk to the hand


66 posted on 08/01/2021 3:48:20 PM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: DoodleBob

Hip hip hooray,it’s lock down season!


67 posted on 08/01/2021 3:49:22 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: DoodleBob

That quote is made up or the public health expert is a gibbering idiot. Contract tracing doesn’t ask you if you’ve been exposed, they inform you that you’ve been exposed.

This article has other bogus elements and questionable quotes/sources.

It’s fiction.


68 posted on 08/01/2021 3:49:54 PM PDT by Valpal1
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To: DoodleBob
US doctors lose patience

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69 posted on 08/01/2021 3:50:24 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: DoodleBob

If this PLAN’D-demic is anywhere as bad as our politicl/medical complex says it is shouldn’t the homeless and illegal alien communities be wiped out by now?


70 posted on 08/01/2021 3:52:35 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Karl Spooner

“Get Some!”


71 posted on 08/01/2021 3:57:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoodleBob

That was exactly my reaction when I read that.


72 posted on 08/01/2021 3:59:21 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DoodleBob

73 posted on 08/01/2021 4:00:04 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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To: DoodleBob

Okay, so we can’t shoot them. Is it okay to light them on fire?


74 posted on 08/01/2021 4:01:26 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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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”

Censorship destroys trust. You could start with that.


75 posted on 08/01/2021 4:04:52 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: HotHunt

“Trust but verify”... but what if you are not allowed to verify or even ask the question?


76 posted on 08/01/2021 4:04:58 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: DoodleBob

77 posted on 08/01/2021 4:06:02 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Keyhopper
Ignore them.

They'd love to be lit on fire....they'll recover, go back to their Starbucks lounge and show their burn scars and NEVER have to pay for a latte ever again. They probably then hook up with the barista.

Leftists love attention - even if it's right-wingers ranting and raving - but they haaaaate being ignored.

78 posted on 08/01/2021 4:07:37 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

79 posted on 08/01/2021 4:10:39 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: fella
If this PLAN’D-demic is anywhere as bad as our politicl/medical complex says it is, shouldn’t the homeless and illegal alien communities be wiped out by now?

Yes! And with all the COVID casualties laying around, shouldn't the mortuaries be overflowing? But if you go to your local mortuary, they actually have less business then average, so where's all these bodies?

80 posted on 08/01/2021 4:31:19 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy ("It's the butter that makes the CPU run faster...")
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