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The Piedmont RSA employees have many doubts and fears. Some, without shame, declare themselves No Vax. Even the budget of a Piedmont retirement home where out of 50 employees only two said they wanted to be vaccinated against Covid, which decimated the facilities during the emergency. At the moment, the results of surveys and membership applications are disappointing.
Nursing Homes’ Latest Fear: “Our Staff Doesn’t Want to Get Vaccinated”
by Zita Dazzi, Sara Strippoli, Rory Cappelli
The Anaste Association, which has 7,000 beds in our region, wanted to conduct a survey on the anti-Covid vaccine after verifying the low adherence to the flu vaccine. In contrast to the increase in applications in the general population: “We realized that the numbers were low and we wondered why,” says regional president Michele Assandri. The monitoring result reinforced the belief that resistance was high: 70 percent of a sample of 1000 workers (out of a total of 3800) said that they were not available to be vaccinated: “Let’s say that half of them declare not having problems sharing the positions of the No Vax. The other half do not feel that they have enough information about the side effects, specifying that they do not rule out the possibility of changing their mind if there are more reassuring details, “adds Assandri.
Just yesterday the Pfizer-Biontech brochure that everyone was waiting for was published. Before, only the English version was available: “Now we finally have the necessary information, we will start with a general campaign to try to convince our workers”, clarifies the president of Anaste.
Paolo Spolaore, vice president of the Confindustria Piemonte health commission and president of the Consorzio Obiettivo Sociale, 1000 beds in our region, 750 employees, reveals that he has found non-homogeneous positions and confirms that the membership is very low: “We write to everyone, individually . In the best situations, half of the employees are available; in the worst, the percentage does not exceed 20 percent. For the guests, we had the information from the brochure translated into English while we waited for Italian and posted it on the notice board. announcements, but at the moment we don’t know what membership is. ”
The fear of the vaccine and the sense of community
by Massimo Recalcati
Not that other confirmations are needed, considering that two of the most important associations that collect the 730 Rsa present in Piedmont have found such low figures. But if we can also add an example from a group based on the outskirts of Turin with two facilities, the data does not change at all: 8 out of 10 employees, including health workers and nurses, said they were afraid of the vaccine. . Especially if they are young and think they are less likely to get sick.
An unedifying premise. Further confirmed by the reduction of the doses to be administered during today’s V-Day by Rsa. Although the first plan drawn up indicated 70 vaccines for each of the three facilities identified for the symbolic departure, now in two of them, says Antono Rinaudo, coordinator of the vaccination plan of the Crisis Unit, “we have been forced to go down to 45 “. There is not only the perplexity of the employees, but also the guests, collecting membership is not easy. Many are elderly who are not self-sufficient, instead a family member or support administrator must speak. “We will clarify all aspects,” promises Rinaudo.
