Scores of health care workers are still declining to take the COVID-19 vaccine, presenting problems to the pandemic response by sending the wrong message to the public and risking staff shortages if workers become sick.
It’s all happening as a more contagious variant of the virus begins spreading in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday warned this strain could be the dominant one hitting the United States by March.
While there is no national data showing the number of health workers who have declined to be vaccinated, governors, public health officials and health care executives have sounded the alarm on what appears to be a higher than expected refusal rate.
In New York state, more than 40 percent of health workers, who are first in line to get the shot because of their importance to the COVID-19 response, have yet to be vaccinated. It’s not clear how many had actually declined the vaccine, versus not being offered it yet. But the percentage of workers who declined a vaccine in different regions of the state ranges from 12 percent to 29 percent, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
Read more at The Hill.
{Matzav.com}
Someone actually mentioned something very logical about not vaccinating all healthcare professionals at the same time. Especially if they chose to forego the vaccine at this time. If G-d forbid there was an adverse reaction down the road, if all healthcare workers got vaccines at the same time, where would that leave the gen population in regards to who will care for us!
lol reactions are not happening 10 years later. they are mostly withing a few days at most
It’s not ridiculous at all, because 10 years haven’t passed since people started getting vaccinated. Not ten months or ten weeks either; barely ten days…
probably because most of them have antibodies