The American “Los Angeles Times” reported that some health care workers refuse to take the Corona vaccine, although they have priority to obtain it. People who believe the scientific data that support vaccines.
At St. Elizabeth Hospital in Los Angeles, less than half of the 700 hospital workers who qualify for the vaccine were ready to receive the vaccine when it was first introduced.
At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors refused the vaccine, and nearly 20% to 40% of frontline workers in Los Angeles County who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to health officials. County Public.
Riverside County Public Health Director Kim Sarwatari said many frontline workers in Riverside County rejected the vaccine an estimated 50% – as hospital and public officials met to devise better strategies for dispensing unused doses.
Although the scientific evidence is clear regarding the safety and efficacy of vaccines after trials that included tens of thousands of participants, including the elderly and those with chronic health conditions, the injection is recommended for everyone except for those who have suffered a severe allergic reaction to any of the ingredients but still Doubt persists.
April Lu, a 31-year-old nurse at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, said she refused the vaccination because she was not convinced it was safe for pregnant women who are six months pregnant.
Clinical trials have not yet been conducted in pregnant women who receive the vaccine, but experts believe that the vaccine is unlikely to pose a specific risk, according to the CDC.
Luo said: “I choose the risk – the risk of infection with corona and I will not choose the unknown risk from the vaccine … I can control the risk of corona infection and prevent it a little by wearing masks, although it is not 100% certain.”
She explained that some of her co-workers also refused the vaccine because they had spent months without contracting the virus and believed they had a good chance of survival.
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The extent to which health care workers reject the vaccine is unclear, but reports of lower-than-expected participation rates are emerging across America, raising concerns among epidemiologists who say the effects on public health could be catastrophic.
I found a survey conducted by an enterprise Kaiser Family Foundation Recently 29% of healthcare workers were “hesitant about a vaccine,” a number slightly higher than the percentage for the general population, 27%.
The consequences are likely to be dire: if too few people are vaccinated, the pandemic will extend indefinitely, leading to future surges, excessive pressure on the healthcare system and ongoing economic fallout.
“Our ability as a society to return to a higher level of performance depends on protecting as many people as possible,” said Mark Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at Harvard University.
Said respondents to an institution survey Kaiser Family Foundation Those who said they might not get the vaccine are concerned about side effects; They lacked confidence in the government to ensure the safety of vaccines; Have concerns about the role of politics in developing vaccines; Or they think Corona risks are overrated.
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