Posted on 10/14/2021 9:22:59 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Perhaps one of the more perplexing developments during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the display of vaccine hesitancy among some health care workers (HCWs). Because infection preventionists (IPs) often lead vaccination drives at hospitals, they’ve found themselves having to encourage their fellow workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and it hasn’t always been an easy job.
But just whom among HCWs want to avoid getting the vaccine? Investigators with the University of Illinois at Chicago wanted to address that question and presented their findings in a preprint study in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC).
“A surprising proportion of vaccine hesitant respondents cited insufficient evidence for vaccine efficacy, a somewhat concerning finding given the survey population,” the study states.
Politics, it seems, cannot be avoided when discussing vaccine hesitancy and investigators found a divide depending on party affiliation. Nearly half of the HCW participants in the study who said they were Republican said that they had not been vaccinated, nor do they intend to be vaccinated.
However, HCWs who did not get the vaccine also tended to be younger, non-physicians, and Black. Also, some HCWs expressed concerns about adverse side effects having to do with getting pregnant or delivering a baby. Overall, Black and Republican HCWs had lower rates of vaccine uptake.
“Although we acknowledge that COVID-19 and its vaccines have been politicized more than any other disease in recent history, it is equally important to acknowledge there is more to human intersectionality, values, and experience than political affiliation,” the study states.
Investigators surveyed HCWs in 3 large academic medical centers in the Chicago area between March and May 2021 and found that about 3 out of every 20 HCWs self-reported vaccine hesitancy. Of the 1974 respondents, about 85% said that they had gotten or planned to get the COVID-19 vaccine. “Multivariable logistic regression found HCWs were less likely to receive COVID-19 vaccination if they were Black (OR 0.34, 95% CI 0.15-0.80), Republican (OR 0.54, 95% CI 0.31-0.91), or allergic to any vaccine component (OR 0.27, 95% CI 0.10-0.70) and more likely to receive if they believed people close to them thought it was important for them to receive the vaccine (OR 5.2, 95% CI 3-8),” the study states.
They found that—and this is where IPs might come in—HCWs tended to trust information that’s relayed to them by a fellow HCW than by any marketing campaign. Rather than rely on such campaigns, hospitals should instead foster trusting relationships among employees across departments and job roles. Doctors and nurses are principally viewed as trustworthy, the study states.
“It will be especially important to create safe spaces where HCWs, including clinicians, food providers, and environmental service workers can express their questions and concerns in an open and transparent forum due to inherent power structures and hierarchies that frequently serve as barriers to the agency of vulnerable persons,” the study states.
Many hospitals and health care systems across the country have mandated that their workers be vaccinated against COVID-19, sometimes leading to workers either quitting or getting fired.
As authors Mary Jean Ricci, MSN, RNBC, and Frances Amorim, MSN, RN, CCE, recently put it in an article in Infection Control Today®, mandating vaccinations for health care workers is a balancing act. The title of their article: “Ethical and Practical Considerations Surrounding Mandatory Vaccination.” They wrote: “Infection preventionists and the hospital leadership teams need to communicate with all stakeholders to balance the health of the community and protect the current and future workforce.”
The authors of the AJIC study also recognize how tricky vaccine mandates for HCWs can be. “Hospitals, health care systems, and state governments are increasingly mandating vaccination against COVID-19 for health care workers across the United States,” they write. “While we support these efforts, vaccine mandates come with attendant harms and the potential to exacerbate issues of mistrust, hesitancy, communication, and inequities in agency. Although it is likely vaccine mandates for health care workers will increase uptake in the vaccine, it is also possible these mandates may lead to backlash, leaving health care workers fearful of losing their jobs or feeling obliged to receive the vaccine against their personal values or concerns.”
I guess because they know the truth about the vaccines, after seeing first hand what they do to people.
Because it’s still in third stage trial.
Beeen in development for a year.
Duh.
They have seen lots of substances with full trials and fda approval go horribly wrong, and they know drug mfgrs put profits ahead of patients
“Hesisitancy” presumes logical eventuality.
“Refusal” is more accurate.
That too.
People are not used to vaccines with substantial side effects.
I’m 62 years of age.
People 65+, fearing death, streamed in to get vaccinated.
Many health care workers and vulnerable people also eagerly got it.
In early 2021 I asked everyone I knew who got it about their experience. I never heard of a negative experience.
My first shot just had muscle tenderness.
My second shot left me too weak to leave home for a day.
I think the testing was done on individuals who never had Covid.
I suspect as the months passed, more people had had Covid and reacted more strongly to the shots. The shots got to have a less than stellar reputation.
There’s also the death risk factor. Younger people who are not likely to die of Covid don’t readily accept the proposition of getting sick to avoid getting very sick.
The blood clot issue scared off people who were not going to risk (1 in roughly a million chance) death merely to avoid getting hospitalized sick with Covid (1 in maybe 1000 chance).
Also, too much reporting emphasis was placed on Covid deaths and not enough on long-term Covid disability.
Yeah, what about all the Health Karen nurses with stories of caring for people who are begging for medicine after being skeptical about covid and then about vaccination? The 18 hour shifts in ICU’s full of covid dying? The Health Karens should have been near 100% compliance. That is what the vaccinations are about, compliance. Same with masks.
When thousands die and thousands more have dangerous side effects, all for a 99% survival covid rate? Yeah, I’ll pass.
One wishes that one could take such a report at face value, but after all the obvious lying that’s gone on.......
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Sod off you lying troll.
The risks of the clot shot are greater than officially reported.
Vaccine hesitancy?
Simple human response:
better to go with “the devil you know” - a virus with a 99+ survival rate - than put your trust in a jab which has questionable long-term efficacy & unknown side-effects.
I decline to take the ‘vaccines’.
“In an interview with the editorial board at The New York Times in January 2020, Joe Biden was asked by the editorial board what he would look for in a Supreme Court nominee. Biden said:
‘[T]hey have to… acknowledge the unenumerated rights and a right to privacy in the Constitution....They’ll support a woman’s right to choose…That is critical.’”
IMO, the vaccine's risk was much lower than my risk of ending up hospitalized due to covid, high risk group. And not one person has denied that death from this bioweapon is horrifying to endure or witness.
Had Trump not been deposed, and had continued with the fight against this disease, this story would be very different. Especially the story of Regeneron and Eli Lily's monoclonal antibody treatments, the latter of which saved the life of my loved one. Trump did a stellar job getting the CDC and FDA out of the way. He alone stood firm even when the snakes were wrapping him up tight and ending his Presidency. I will be forever grateful that he brought these vaccines to market and saved so many of us from a torturous end.
First line of second paragraph. Stopped reading right there.
Whom want to avoid?
Regards,
Fourth paragraph of article.
So about half of the Republicans are "refusers." From that, one can infer that about half of the Republicans are NOT "refusers." (Strangely, no info is provided about Democrats. I wonder why?)
Thus, no clear-cut correlation between political affiliation and stance on "vaccine hesitancy."
Regards,
Yes: Young Blacks are well-known as a a core demographic of the Republic Party!
This article is Scheiße!
Regards,
Generally speaking what do blacks and Republicans have in common? They both operate under the assumption that white liberals are lying to them. Any why is that point of commonality relevant here? Because white liberals are the ones demanding that everyone submit to this vax.
“hesitancy” implies one is only delaying and may be convinced to receive it later.
I am not “vaccine hesitant”.
I am vaccine “no way under the sun on God’s green earth.”
I have no hesitation about getting it. It’s not happening unless someone ties me down and forces it into me.
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