California: Between 20% and 50% of Front Line Workers Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
January 1st, 2021Via: Los Angeles Times:
They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it.
At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health officials.
So many frontline workers in Riverside County have refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that hospital and public officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses, Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said.
The vaccine doubts swirling among healthcare workers across the country come as a surprise to researchers, who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data backing the vaccines.
Both the following guys are establishment when it comes to vaccinations, but the response of health workers in the story above reminds me of what pro-vax Paul Offit had to say about untested vaccines at https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-3/ (16:50).
There’s also a bit about herd immunity at 22:15 and an interesting question from ZDogg regarding natural immunity that’s not really answered by Offit about whether herd immunity levels to covid can occur naturally at much lower percentages than the 2/3 figure usually claimed.