With thousands of California frontline hospital workers refusing to take new Covid-19 vaccines, the mainstream media faced the difficult task of explaining why those seen as the most experienced would not accept inoculation.
The Los Angeles Times reported the figures, suggesting that hospital staff – whom the media praised as selfless heroes of the pandemic – may not have been as “In tune with scientific data” as public health officials could have expected. After pointing out the potential “disastrous” implications of surprisingly low acceptance of the vaccine among healthcare professionals, the newspaper found a family culprit: the Trump administration.
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“It is certainly disappointing, but it is not shocking, given what the federal government has done in the past 10 months,” he said. Sal Rosselli, president of the National Health Workers Union, told the Times. “Trust science. It is about science, reality and what is right ”.
Hospital and nursing home workers were given top priority to receive the first doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines that received emergency use authorization in the United States – both to protect those most exposed to the virus and to sell to the general public about the safety of getting the photos. But in Los Angeles County, up to 40% of frontline workers refused to be vaccinated. The numbers were even worse in some other areas, including 50 percent in Riverside County, the Times said.
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Less than half the qualified staff at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County has agreed to receive the vaccines. The St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff returned 200 of the 495 doses it had received. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that 29 percent of health professionals were “Hesitating vaccines,” exceeding the average of 27 percent of the general population.
Alarm bells went off. The Times appointed five reporters, including Jack Dolan, once a Pulitzer Prize finalist, to explain what went wrong. His efforts to discredit the workers or blame the Trump administration have not been entirely successful.
“Our colleagues are not dying – pure risk-benefit assessment by smart people,” said a Twitter user. “Why would they take a vax?” Another said “Deaf media” he is blind to the truth that hospital staff who refuse the vaccine are, in fact, more in tune with science. Yet another observer asked, “Doesn’t that say something about how people who see the disease every day feel about the risk and severity of the disease?”
Health workers have been working around the virus for the past year. Our colleagues are NOT falling dead. Pure risk / benefit assessment by smart people. Why would they take a vax?
– SaveOurRepublic🔥 (@TurnOffCNN) December 31, 2020
The media deaf to the fact that health professionals who refuse the vaccine are “among those who are most in line with the scientific data behind the vaccines”.
– Chris (@colsonslife) December 31, 2020
Doesn’t that say something about how people who see the disease on a daily basis feel about the risk and severity of the disease?
– Tom Nevin (@tom_nevin) December 31, 2020
The Times quoted a 31-year-old nurse, April Lu, who did just that calculation. She said that, being six months pregnant, she chose the known risks of being infected with Covid-19 instead of the unknown risks of being vaccinated.
Proponents of the vaccine reacted angrily, with some saying that hospital staff who refuse to shoot should be fired, or at least placed at the end of the line for treatment if they are infected with the virus. “I can’t believe this is happening,” said an observer. “This has to be a joke. How are people in the health sector doing, but ignoring science? “
I think it’s okay if they keep working, but if they get greedy and need to be managed at the hospital, they should be placed at the bottom of the line so that everyone at the front can get the treatment they need first 🤷🏻♂️
– Thomas Small (@TommySmallV) December 31, 2020
Author Alex Berenson said he was only shocked that the Times reported the reality. “Are all publishers on vacation?” he joked.
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