January 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A significant portion of frontline workers in hospitals and nursing homes would refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to recent reports, despite a major effort by the political system to do vaccines appear safe and reliable.
AN Kaiser Family Foundation The report (KFF) showed that 29% of hospital staff “definitely or probably would not be vaccinated”, this number being only slightly lower among the general public, which is around 27%. According to KFF, the main reason cited among those who would refuse the vaccine is the concern about side effects (59%).
More than half of the same group was also concerned with safety, haste and the politicization of vaccine development (55%, 53% and 51% respectively).
Many hospitals and clinics say that an even greater share of their health care team is against vaccination.
In Northern California, less than half of the qualified staff at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital got the vaccine when offered, the Los Angeles Times reported. Public health records in LA show that between 20% and 40% of all frontline workers have also refused to be vaccinated. Riverside County, California, reported that about 50% of its frontline employees declined the opportunity to receive a vaccine.
O Los Angeles Times also reported that a nurse at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, herself six months pregnant, refused to be vaccinated on the grounds that the vaccine is potentially dangerous for pregnant women.
The UK government released a document in December warning that pregnant or breastfeeding women do not receive the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine based on the fact that “there is no data or limited data” on the effects on children and fertility.
“For women of childbearing potential, pregnancy should be excluded before vaccination,” says the document, with additional guidance that pregnancy should be avoided in the first two months after receiving injections of COVID-19.
Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine said at a news conference on Dec. 30 that 60% of nursing home staff in his state had not received the vaccine after it was offered. Although the governor promised that he would not “get” them to get the vaccine, he expressed his desire that “they would do better”.
Speaking about the opportunity to benefit from a vaccine, DeWine added: “Our message today is that the train may take a while to return” and “[e]Everyone makes their own choice about this, but we want to make it clear that the opportunity may take a while. This, he hopes, will ignite a “sense of urgency”, encouraging acceptance.
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In Houston, Texas, Dr. Joseph Varon of the United Memorial Medical Center told NPR’s Morning Edition that he is facing resistance from his team towards the COVID vaccines.
“Yesterday I had a – not a fight, but I had a friendly discussion with more than 50% of my nurses in my unit telling me that they were not going to get the vaccine,” he said. Varon states that “[m]Most of the reasons why the majority of my people do not want to get the vaccine are politically motivated ”, adding that, apparently based on discussions with those who would refuse the vaccine,“ the fact that [President] Trump is in charge of speeding up the process that bothers them. ”
Varon intends to influence many of his employees to get the vaccine, saying he hopes to be able to convince them to “do the right thing”.
Firefighters in New York City also reported a low willingness to get the COVID vaccine. More than half of the 2,000 members of the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) would refuse the vaccine when offered.
As Governor DeWine, UFA President Andrew Ansboro said the union is “encouraging [its] members to receive the vaccine, but we are defending the right to make that choice ”. Ansboro and UFA health and safety officer Michael Schreiber received the vaccine as a way to encourage their colleagues to do the same.
The most recent information from the Pew Research Center on vaccine absorption, published before the vaccine was launched in the United States, but after clinical trials, shows that 39% of Americans would not get the COVID-19 vaccine and that more than half of these people they were “pretty sure” they would not get the vaccine even after others started taking it.
The survey continues to show that there has been an increase in public confidence that a safe and effective vaccine will be developed in the United States, with 75% of respondents reporting at least “a good dose of confidence” in November last year. Interestingly, 62% of participants reported that they would be “uncomfortable” because they are among the first to receive the vaccine. Only 37% said they would be “comfortable”, despite the supposed confidence that a safe vaccine will be developed.
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