Thousands of healthcare and front-line employees in the United States refuse to receive COVID-19 vaccines as photo shoots in America continue to slip.
As many as half of California’s health care workers and a Texas hospital say they won’t get a chance, 60 percent of Ohio nursing home staff refuse jab, and 40 percent of Los Angeles front-line workers don’t they will receive either, polls show.
Respondents to a series of polls cite fears of dangerous side effects, health workers’ forum posters say they feel used as guinea pigs and experts blame misinformation.
Although life-threatening side effects are rare, examples of them emerged in the early days of the vaccine launch with two Alaska workers – one of whom now had a history of allergies – suffering from anaphylactic shock a few minutes after receiving the first dose of Pfizer. vaccine.
The problem is not unique to the United States. American and Dutch health workers have complained that they are being used as guinea pigs.
But it is a serious problem in the United States, where 3,000 people typically die in just 24 hours, and the launch of the vaccine is at a snail’s pace, with only about 14% of the 20 million people in Operation Warp. Speed promised to vaccinate by the end of 2020, receiving the first doses before New Year’s Day.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that 60 percent of asylum workers refuse the vaccine. Up to 40 percent of health care workers in Los Angeles and 50 percent of Riverside County refuse to be shot, according to the Los Angeles Times
In Ohio, 60 percent of nursing home workers refuse coronavirus vaccines, as do half of health care workers in Riverside County, California, despite being at high risk for COVID-19. offers blows first
Millions of doses of coronavirus vaccines are available in most of the US, but remain unused
Healthcare workers were given first place in a row to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in all states, following the CDC’s recommendations to prioritize their inoculation.
The purpose of providing early access was to protect nurses, doctors and hospital staff again exposed to patients with COVID-19.
Public health experts hoped that vaccinating health workers would not only protect them from infections, but reduce the risk of them spreading the virus and preventing hospitals from running out of staff.
But the assumption that health workers would like the shots was not disappointed.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that about 60 percent of nurses there refuse to be shot.
“We will not do them, but we would like to have greater compliance,” he said.
“And our message today is: the train may not return for a while. We will make it available to everyone in the end, but this is the opportunity for you and you should really think about getting it.
In Los Angeles County, between 20 and 40 percent of front-line workers refuse to shoot COVID-19, the Los Angeles Times reported.
In nearby Riverside County, refusal is even more common, with half of frontline workers refusing coronavirus vaccines.
“I choose the risk – the risk of having COVID or the risk of the vaccine unknown,” Lu, a 31-year-old nurse from California, told Lu Times April.
“I think I take the risk of COVID. I can control and prevent it a bit by wearing masks, although not 100% safe.
The nurses’ refusal should not have come as a complete surprise to health officials – especially in California.
A survey by the Kaiser Family Health Foundation published on December 15 – just as the United States began distributing vaccines – found that 29 percent of health care workers did not want to be shot.
A national COVID-19 vaccination mandate would be unprecedented and unlikely, even under the Biden administration.
However, individual institutions could impose shootings.
For example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires that all employees who practice clinics receive flu vaccines in order to come to work.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was “sure” that some institutions and companies would need vaccination and that “everything will be on the table” in terms of how to vaccinate more people and end the pandemic, according to News Week.