U.S. Thousands of healthcare and frontline workers in India are refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine as shots continue to rollout in the United States.
Half of the health care workers at a hospital in California County and Texas say they won’t get the pill, 60 percent of nursing home staff in Ohio are blinking and 40 percent of frontline workers in Los Angeles won’t get it. Either way, the poll declares.
Respondents to a number of surveys cite fears of dangerous side effects, posters from the health care activist forum say they feel they are being used as guinea pigs and experts blame misinformation.
Although the fatal side effects are rare, his symptoms arose in the first days of a vaccine rollout with two Alaskan healthcare workers – one of whom now has a history of allergies – minutes after receiving the first dose of Pfizer vaccine for anaphylactic shock.
The problem is the U.S. Not unique to American and Dutch health care workers alike have complained that they are being used as guinea pigs.
But it’s a terrible issue in the U.S., where 24,000 people are regularly dying in just 24 hours, and vaccination rollout is progressing at a snail’s pace, with only 14 percent of the 20 million people promised to be vaccinated at operational speeds. . Receiving the first dose of 2020 before the new year.
Ohio Gov. Mike Dyne said Thursday that 60% of nursing home workers are refusing vaccinations. As many as 40% of health care workers in Los Angeles and 50% in Riverside County are refusing shots, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In Ohio, 60 percent of nursing home workers are switching to coronavirus vaccines, as half of healthcare workers in Riverside County, California, are exposed to COVID-19 risks and were first offered to Jebs (file).
Millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine are available in most parts of the U.S., but are not used.
Following the CDC recommendations to give priority to health care workers in inoculation, all states have been spot-furred in the first line for vaccination against Covid-19.
The goal of admitting them as early as possible was to protect neurosurgeons, doctors and hospital staff, who were frequently exposed to COVID-19 patients.
Public health experts hoped that vaccinating a health care worker first would not only prevent infection but also reduce the risk of spreading the virus and prevent hospitals from running out of staff.
But the notion that healthcare workers want shots has not panned.
Ohio Gov. Mike Dewey said Thursday that about 60 percent of nurses there are refusing shots.
He said, ‘We don’t make them, but we want our compliance to be more.’
‘And today our message is: the train can’t come back for a while. We’re finally going to make it available to everyone, but this is an opportunity for you, and you should really think about getting it. ‘
Health care workers took to Twitter to express their concern about the lack of data on vaccine safety.
The new Jersey health worker said she was convinced she and her colleagues were being vaccinated before serving as guinea pigs for the Covid-19 shot, if they were to be given to the general public.
In Los Angeles County, between 20 and 40 front-line workers are refusing COVID-19 shots, the Los Angeles Times reported.
In nearby Riverside County, refusal is even more common, with half the frontline workers switching to coronavirus vaccines.
April Lou, a 31-year-old nurse in California, said, ‘I choose the risk – the risk of having covid, or the risk of being unfamiliar with the vaccine.’
‘I think I prefer the risk of COVID. I can handle it and stop wearing the mask a little bit, though not 100 percent for sure. ‘
The nurse’s refusal should come as no surprise to health officials, especially in California.
In a survey by the Kaiser Family Health Foundation, published December 15 – as in the U.S. The vaccine was starting to deliver – found that 29 percent of people working in health care settings don’t want a shot.
Even under the incoming Biden administration, the National Sensation-19 vaccine order would be unprecedented and unlikely.
Individual bodies, however, can command shots.
For example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires all clinically practiced staff to take flu shots to get to work.
Dr Anthony Fawcett said he was confident that some organizations and companies would need vaccinations and that “everything will be on the table” in terms of how to vaccinate more people and end the epidemic, according to Newsweek.
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