Many healthcare workers refuse to take vaccine

[Elderberry]

Ice Age Now 1/3/2021

L.A. Times notes that 20-40% of L.A. County hospital health workers have declined the vaccine. In other areas it’s as high as 50%.

The headline in the L.A. Times says that “some” healthcare workers refuse to take the vaccine, but the ensuing article says that 20-40% of L.A. County hospital health workers have declined the vaccine. In other areas it’s as high as 50%.

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.

More: https://www.iceagenow.info/many-healthcare-workers-refuse-to-take-vaccine/

[catfish1957]

A vaccination?  What could go wrong?

[thackney]

Large Numbers Of Health Care And Frontline Workers Are Refusing Covid-19 Vaccinehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/02/large-numbers-of-health-care-and-frontline-workers-are-refusing-covid-19-vaccine/?sh=22f9f74c3c96
 Jan 3, 2021

Earlier this week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he was "troubled" by the relatively low numbers of nursing home workers who have elected to take the vaccine, with DeWine stating that approximately 60% of nursing home staff declined the shot.

Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of critical care at Houston's United Memorial Medical Center, told NPR in December more than half of the nurses in his unit informed him they would not get the vaccine.

Roughly 55 percent of surveyed New York Fire Department firefighters said they would not get the coronavirus vaccine, the Firefighters Association president said last month.

[thackney]

My daughter got the Covid Vaccination this morning.  She is an elementary school teacher.  The teachers that interact with the youngest that do not have to wear masks were put at the front of the teachers group.

[Idiot]

My daughter got the Covid Vaccination this morning.  She is an elementary school teacher.  The teachers that interact with the youngest that do not have to wear masks were put at the front of the teachers group.

I called our 2 of our local pharmacies this morning and got my mom (90) and me on the list for the vaccine.  I think we are #325 in line.

[Wingnut]

I called our 2 of our local pharmacies this morning and got my mom (90) and me on the list for the vaccine.  I think we are #325 in line.

325.  That is a really good Lotto number.  If it was for the draft in 1969.

[mountaineer]

Darla Shine  @DarlaShine
Jan 10
So this nursing home didn't have a COVID outbreak until they vaccinated everyone. Now they have 24 deaths.
11:45 AM · Jan 10, 2021·

Covid-19 outbreak at Auburn nursing home infects 137 residents, kills 24
Updated Jan 09, 2021; Posted Jan 09, 2021

By James T. Mulder | jmulder@syracuse.com

Auburn, N.Y. – A Covid-19 outbreak at a Cayuga County nursing home that began two weeks ago has infected 137 residents, 24 of whom have died.

The outbreak at The Commons on St. Anthony in Auburn started Dec. 21 as a wave of post-Thanksgiving Covid-19 cases began hitting the county, said Julie Sheedy, an official of Loretto which operates the 300-bed nursing home.

Forty-seven employees have tested positive. ...

The nursing home began vaccinating residents Dec. 22. So far 193 residents, or 80%, and 113 employees, or less than half the staff, have been vaccinated. The nursing home plans to do more vaccinations Jan. 12. ...

Syracuse.com

Really? They know the outbreak started just a few hours before (thank goodness!) they started vaccinating.  That's amazing!

[Hoodat]

New York's track record on Covid is abysmal.  And to think that Gov. Cuomo actually wrote a book about himself explaining what a great job he had done.

[jmyrlefuller]

New York's track record on Covid is abysmal.  And to think that Gov. Cuomo actually wrote a book about himself explaining what a great job he had done.

Twice as many deaths per capita as much- (and unjustly) maligned South Dakota.

[Wingnut]

The Mob could have done a better job than Guido.