“I PREFER THE RISK OF COVID TO VACCINE”: ALMOST HALF OF LOS ANGELES HEALTH PROFESSIONALS DO NOT WANT TO VACCINATE
As reported by the Los Angeles Times , health workers in the city have greeted the start of the vaccination campaign with extreme skepticism, to the point that often 50% of employees refuse the vaccination. For example, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County fewer than half of the 700 operators chosen for this phase of therapy agreed to be injected, at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills one in five nurses refused the injection. It is estimated that the percentage of those who have refused vaccinations reaches 40% in Los Angeles County and 50% in nearby Riverside County.The number of doses refused has been so high that the health authorities have prepared an emergency strategy to redistribute the advanced doses.
Why do trained and informed people refuse to get vaccinated? Sometimes the opposition is perfectly rational: for example a nurse refused because she was pregnant in the sixth month, and the general indications on the vaccine indicate that pregnant women should not be vaccinated. But in the overwhelming number of cases these justifications do not exist.
The widespread feeling among operators is that they can overcome the epidemic without needing to be vaccinated. Very often it is thought that doctors and nurses, because professionals in the sector, are particularly informed or have an intelligence more open to this type of innovation. In reality, health workers are nothing more than the expression of the society in which they live. So if society is skeptical, doctors and nurses will also be skeptical.
The solution? More information, more transparent testing and redistribution strategies for unsold doses used … Repression will only increase skepticism, turning it into expressed hostility.
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