Nurses and hospital staff refuse to take COVID vaccine in large numbers | New

January 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A significant portion of frontline workers in hospitals and nursing homes are reportedly refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine, recent reports show, despite a huge effort by the political establishment to get them vaccines appear to be safe and reliable.

A Kaiser Family Foundation The report (KFF) showed that 29% of hospital staff “would definitely not get vaccinated”, with this figure only slightly lower among the general public, which is around 27%. According to the KFF, the main reason given among those who would refuse the vaccine is concern about side effects (59%).

More than half of the same group also had concerns about the safety, rushed nature and politicization of vaccine development (55%, 53% and 51% respectively).

Many hospitals and clinics say that even more of their health workers oppose vaccination.

In northern California, less than half of the eligible staff at St. Elizabeth’s Community Hospital took the vaccine when it was offered, the Los Angeles Times reported. Los Angeles public health records show that between 20% and 40% of all frontline workers have also refused to be vaccinated. Riverside County, Calif., Reported that about 50% of their frontline workers have refused the opportunity to get the vaccine.

the 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 advising that pregnant or breastfeeding women do not receive COVID-19 mRNA vaccine on the grounds that there is “no or little data” on the effects on the child and on fertility.

“For women of childbearing age, pregnancy should be ruled out before vaccination,” the document says, further with advice to avoid pregnancy for the first two months after receiving COVID-19 injections.

Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine told a press conference on Dec. 30 that 60% of nursing home staff in his state did not take the vaccine after it was offered. Although the governor promised not to “make” them take the vaccine, he expressed his wish that “they have better compliance”.

Speaking of whether to avail of a vaccine, DeWine added, “Our message today is that the train may not be back for a while” and “[e]everyone makes their own choice about this, but we want to make it clear that the opportunity may not present itself for some time. This, he hopes, will ignite a “sense of urgency,” encouraging adoption.

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In Houston, Texas, Dr Joseph Varon of United Memorial Medical Center told NPR Morning edition that he is experiencing resistance from his staff regarding COVID vaccines.

“Yesterday I had a – not a fight, but I had a friendly argument with over 50% of my nurses in my unit telling me they wouldn’t get the vaccine,” he says. Varon asserts that “[m]Most of the reasons why most of my people don’t want to be vaccinated are politically motivated, ”adding that, apparently based on discussions with those who would refuse the vaccine,“ the fact that [President] Trump is responsible for speeding up the process bothers them.

Varon intends to influence many of his staff to take the vaccine, saying he hopes he can convince them “to do the right thing.”

New York firefighters have also reported low willingness to be vaccinated against COVID. More than half of the 2,000 members of the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) in New York City would refuse the vaccine when offered.

Like Governor DeWine, UFA President Andrew Ansboro said the union “encourages [its] members to be vaccinated, but we defend this right to make that choice. Ansboro and UFA health and safety official Michael Schreiber both received the vaccine to encourage their colleagues to do the same.

The most recent information from the Pew Research Center on the use of the vaccine, released before the vaccine was deployed in the United States but after clinical trials, shows that 39% of Americans would not take a COVID-19 vaccine, and that more half of these people were sure “they would not take a vaccine even after others started taking it.”

Research 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 “quite a good deal of confidence” in November of last year. Interestingly, 62% of participants said they would be “uncomfortable” to be among the first to receive the vaccine. Only 37% said they would be “comfortable” despite the apparently high confidence that a safe vaccine will be developed.

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