With nearly 300,000 new cases in one day, doctors and nurses’ rejection of the vaccine increases

Many U.S. healthcare workers, who are on the front lines for the coronavirus vaccine, refuse to do so. They allege, among other things, their mistrust of the reactions they could undergo, as the pandemic progresses in several states of the country with a record number of contagion in recent weeks.

A total of 350,598 people have died from coronavirus in the United States since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest update from Johns Hopkins University, released this Sunday.

The latest newsletter includes 299,087 cases detected in the last 24 hours and 2,398 new deaths. In total, since the virus arrived in the United States in February, 20,427,780 cases have been detected. The country surpassed 20 million cases on Friday and last week, the average number of daily cases was 205,840.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has revealed that about 60% of nursing home workers in his state have so far chosen not to get the vaccine.

Something similar is happening in New York, where more than half of emergency service workers have shown their thskepticism about the new vaccine, regardless of the laboratory, noted a report by New York Post.

The rejection has started to spread to other states, now joined by California and Texas, which have high rates from healthcare workers, according to reports.

An estimated 50% of frontline workers in Riverside County, Golden State, chose not to take the drug Los Angeles Times, citing public health officials.

More than half of the staff at St Elizabeth’s Community Hospital in California who were on the list to receive the vaccine did not receive it by choice, the newspaper reported.

In Texas, a doctor at Houston Memorial Medical Center noted that half of the nurses at the facility would not receive the vaccine, citing political and medical reasons.

The excuse shared by Texas nurses was echoed in a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, which found that 29% of healthcare workers were “reluctant to get vaccinated,” reported the Times.

The newspaper added that respondents who were in favor of the vaccine indicated, among other reasons, that they were concerned about how policy influenced vaccine development.

A nurse at a California hospital who chose not to be vaccinated because she is pregnant said her colleagues who had chosen the same path as she they think they don’t need the vaccine to overcome the pandemic

“I feel like people are thinking, ‘I can still survive until this is over without getting the vaccine,'” said April Lu, a 31-year-old nurse at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, in. Times.

The United States continues to report a record number of cases, and on the first day of 2021, added more than 160,000 new coronavirus infections, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

Over 20 million cases in the country

The United States arrived this Saturday at 20,474,163 confirmed cases and 350,598 deaths from covid-19, according to the independent tally from Johns Hopkins University.

Friday, the first day of 2021, the disastrous milestone of 20 million cases was reached, which implies that the number of infections in the United States has doubled in less than two months, since 10 million cases were reached on November 9.

These data illustrate the severity of regrowth living in the United States, which in December recorded several daily records of the number of deaths from covid-19 and closed 2020 with a historic high of more than 125,000 hospitalized with the disease.

New York State remains the hardest hit in the country by the pandemic with 38,243 deaths, followed by Texas (28,597), California (26,394), Florida (21,890) and New Jersey (19,329).

Illinois (18,208), Pennsylvania (16,307), Michigan (13,306), Massachusetts (12,502) and Georgia (10,960) are other states with high death tolls.

In terms of infections, California has 2,371,465, followed by Texas with 1,798,238, Florida is third with 1,354,833, New York is fourth with 1,043,760 and in fifth place is Illinois with 975 352.

Far from the initial estimates

The provisional death toll is far above the lower limit of the White House’s initial estimates, which predicted at best between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic, when it began to spread dangerously in April and May.

US President Donald Trump lowered those estimates and was convinced the final figure would be between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths, although he later predicted as many as 110,000 deaths, a number that was also exceeded.

For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) at the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are generally set by the White House, calculates that when Trump leaves power the January 20, there will be 420,000 people died and 560,000 by April 1.

Source: ANSA and EFE

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