April 1, 2022 - Conclusion: Clinicians must be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect them against COVID-19 infection and COVID-19 complications so that they may continue to fulfil their important role in society’s response to the pandemic. There are at least two ways to justify the idea that clinicians may have role-specific obligations related to their societal role to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on society’s members. First, the idea of the social contract and the professional obligations of clinicians to society (ACP 2019; AMA 2017, Chapters 8.3, 8.4). There is a long-standing view of the medical professions as being obligated to benefit patients and society by virtue of the social contract between the profession and society; society gives the profession some measure of autonomy to set standards and to self-regulate and in return expects benefit to the health of patients and of the public (BMJ 2002; Collier 2012; Cruess and Cruess 2008).

January 6, 2022 - Although COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in the U.S. and much of the world, many have chosen to forgo this vaccination. Emergency medical services (EMS) professionals, despite their role on the frontlines and interactions with COVID-positive patients, are not immune to vaccine hesitancy. Via a survey conducted in April 2021, we investigated the extent to which first responders in the U.S. trusted various information sources to provide reliable information about COVID-19 vaccines. Those vaccinated generally trusted healthcare providers as a source of information, but unvaccinated first responders had fairly low trust in this information source—a group to which they, themselves, belong. Additionally, regardless of vaccination status, trust in all levels of government, employers, and their community as sources of information was low. Free-response explanations provided some context to these findings, such as preference for other COVID-19 management options, including drugs proven i

Although COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in the U.S. and much of the world, many have chosen to forgo this vaccination. Emergency medical services (EMS) professionals, despite their role on the frontlines and interactions with COVID-positive patients, are not immune to vaccine hesitancy. Via a survey conducted in April 2021, we investigated the extent to which first responders in the U.S. trusted various information sources to provide reliable information about COVID-19 vaccines. Those vaccinated generally trusted healthcare providers as a source of information, but unvaccinated first responders had fairly low trust in this information source—a group to which they, themselves, belong. Additionally, regardless of vaccination status, trust in all levels of government, employers, and their community as sources of information was low. Free-response explanations provided some context to these findings, such as preference for other COVID-19 management options, including drugs proven i

November 4, 2024 - However, the rates remained “persistently below the levels during the prepandemic period.” For example, the flu vaccine rate for hospital workers in 2019-20 was 91%. The CDC figures also showed that nearly 1 in 100 healthcare workers reported ...

January 2, 2021 - Chicago Teachers Union leader is blasted for pushing to keep schools closed because classrooms are 'unsafe' while she vacations in Puerto Rico · A relative of a worker from Southern California Hospital say they were also 'invited' to receive the vaccine · The hospital was forced to stop offering vaccines to relatives and go back to focusing on solely first-responders. However, the vaccination program outlined in federal guidelines, put together by the Centers for Disease Control, said relatives should be treated far later in the rollout of the vaccine. It has seen some hospital boards come out to state openly that they are following the rules to the letter. 'We have been really holding the line and making sure frontline workers go first,' said Krist Azizian, chief pharmacy officer for Keck Medicine of USC, which has about 9,000 workers to the OC Register.

May 13, 2026 - These findings are in line with findings that during the COVID-19 crisis health systems across the globe, and in Israel as well, have been impatient with professional criticism directed at them. One example of this is the medical establishment's disregard and criticism of the Barrington declaration (86, 87), which opposed a policy of lockdowns and tests for people without symptoms. Indeed, the medical establishment worldwide has been attacking physicians who have come out against the vaccination policy, labeling them as spreaders of fake news (88) and disregarding their views. A case in point is the Rome Declaration (89), which attracted more than 10,700 signatures from physicians worldwide. The declaration calls for a halt to the reckless use of Dr. Malone's invention—mRNA platform technology—and renewed attention to human rights. In a study that examined the scientific discourse in Israel at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we found that there was no dialogue between oppositio

December 15, 2020 - The Hospital Corporation of America on Monday received a 10-day notice of the intent to strike by about 2,450 registered nurses and licensed professionals across three of its hospitals, according to the SEIU Local 121 union chapter, which represents ...

November 15, 2025 - Generally litigation for vaccine injury claims against manufacturers are filed with the United States Court of Federal Claims, sitting without a jury and compensation is provided by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) was invoked for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19 on March 17, 2020. Under the PREP Act the HHS secretary provides legal protection to manufacturers of vaccines and treatments, unless there's willful misconduct, barring liability cases from vaccine injury despite low payout rates from the National

January 27, 2024 - 1260 records were identified, of which 38 studies were included in the review. Low COVID-19 vaccination acceptance rates were found among young people, females, non-medical students, and even some healthcare workers, which were associated with misinformation obtained through social media platforms, unknown side effects, questionable conspiracy theories, and doubts about efficacy and safety. Higher COVID-19 vaccination acceptance rates were due to recommendations from healthcare professionals and government sources, and the perceived increased risk of contracting COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccine acceptance varies across the globe. To increase the acceptance rate of the COVID-19 vaccine, public health education programmes should be promoted effectively and target specifically the groups who are most hesitant to receive the vaccine such as young people, females, and non-medical students.

Vaccine mandates: To better protect patients and staff, including 10.4 million health care workers at · 76,000 facilities, COVID-19 immunization is required for CMS reimbursement in Medicare and · Medicaid, with exceptions limited to those who have been granted exemptions from the COVID-19 ...

September 13, 2021 - Anti-vaccine physicians are pushing their COVID vaccine falsehoods on social media, in front of school boards, and directly to patients. All they are doing is assuring our country that the pandemic will continue.

May 16, 2023 - But some interviewees with concerns about the COVID-19 vaccines gave no special credibility to information from doctors or other medical professionals. As one woman put it: “[Doctors are] not very credible because, again, that’s the personal opinion of the doctor. So if this doctor believes in it and this doctor doesn’t, and you go see this doctor and I go see this one, then we’ve got two different information. Everybody has, like I said, their formed opinions.” – Woman, age 25-34, Phoenix, Arizona · Another woman raised questions about the motives of many doctors, saying: “I think a lot of doctors [support the vaccine] because they get people visiting from pharmaceutical companies that are trying to push things, sell their pharmaceuticals.” – Woman, age 50-54, Phoenix, Arizona · On a broader question about who participants turned to for reliable information about the COVID-19 vaccines, several interviewees talked about relying on family, friends and other sources they see as having tr

While urban healthcare facilities usually have modern equipment and reliable electricity supplies to ensure proper storage of the vaccine [52], rural facilities often struggle with frequent power outages and a lack of advanced refrigeration equipment, leading to increased risks of vaccine spoilage [70]. This leads to increased risks of vaccine spoilage, further hindering the ability to conduct sustained vaccination campaigns in these areas. Moreover, the overall healthcare infrastructure in rural areas often lacks the robustness of urban systems. Many rural healthcare facilities are understaffed and underfunded, lacking medical professionals trained to administer vaccines and handle potential adverse reactions [71]. The sparse distribution of healthcare facilities also means that rural residents may have to travel long distances to be vaccinated, posing a significant barrier to achieving high vaccination coverage [72]. These challenges are further compounded by economic constraints tha

April 18, 2022 - COVID-19vaccinesantivaccineCOVID-19 vaccinecancerhomeopathyacupuncturequackerychiropracticnaturopathyFood and Drug Administrationautismcomplementary and alternative medicineSARS-CoV-2Robert F. Kennedy Jr.pediatricsCOVID-19 denialNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Healthpseudoscienceclinical trials · May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 December 2025 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 ... A new survey suggests that a disturbingly high percentage of physicians are either vaccine hesitant or actually antivaccine. Those of us who have been writing about the antivaccine movement know that this is not new, but it seems new to our colleagues who weren’t paying attention before the pandemic and assured themselves that the problem was just Andrew Wakefield. The question is: How bad is the situation now and what do we do about it as a profession? ... If there’s one thing about the COVID-19 pandemic that’s surprised pundit

April 13, 2021 - When our N95 disintegrated, we were told to just wear a bandana. What they made us do was plain wrong and illegal. Our managers didn’t protect us, our union didn’t protect us, OSHA didn’t protect us, and the CDC actively lied to us. When I did catch covid, the hospital refused to even cover my deductible, they basically said “good luck proving you got it here.” When we were tired and overworked and mentioned to the higher-ups that maybe we should get a raise or bonus, we were told we were lucky we had a job. These people will NOT force me to get an experimental vaccine, I am expendable to them, and their science is bullshit now, just like it was one year ago. If the same people that threw me to the wolves then, want to force me to get the vaccine now, I will walk away, and so will a large chunk of other medical professionals in an already strained healthcare system.

“All the papers throughout history have shown that physicians broadly believed they should treat infectious disease patients,” lead author Braylee Grisel, a fourth-year student at Duke University School of Medicine, said in a Duke press release. “We figured our study would show the same thing, so we were really surprised when we found that COVID-19 was so different than all these other outbreaks.” · Consideration of Vaccination Status The researchers said the COVID-19 pandemic may have altered the perceived social contract between physicians and patients, because it had several unique characteristics, including a shortage of resources (e.g., personal protective equipment, hospital rooms, respirators, vaccines, treatments), broadly disseminated misinformation about the disease (e.g., how the virus spreads, effective treatments, vaccine efficacy and safety), its highly contagious nature, and escalating abuse of staff by patients and their families.

May 7, 2025 - Although improvements in treatment and the availability of mRNA vaccines mitigated the severity of later waves, in its early phases there was substantial COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality among healthcare workers [10, 11]. Indeed, Kiang ...

September 28, 2021 - Research on VH has mainly focussed ... vaccines’), philosophical considerations on parents’ responsibility (e.g. parents want to take self-determined health decisions for their children and they do not want to be pushed towards a certain decision) and distrust towards the pharmaceutical industry, public health authorities and health providers (e.g. these institutions only have financial interests and health providers are influenced by them).10,11 · There is no data available on the quantity of VH among Austrian doctors. Studies from other European countries, however, showed that the vast majority of medical doctors is favourable towards vaccination, and that there is a small percentage who is sceptical.12–15 The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is regarded as a possible factor for VH.16,17 According to Bean et al.18 common beliefs among CAM ...

May 14, 2025 - “Women in academic medicine bear a bigger load of teaching and patient care,” notes Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, senior author of the study and a professor at the University of Michigan Medical School. “So the transition to virtual care and virtual teaching has created all these demands that are disproportionately falling to women, making it harder to publish.” · Cynthia Derdeyn, PhD, had high hopes of contributing to COVID-19 research. After all, she runs a lab at Emory University that researches vaccines and infectious diseases. But, she says, “it seemed like I kept hitting dead ends, and the men were getting the support. They often have large networks and a lot of resources.” · Experts also fear that women are being hit hard in the online world, where the pandemic has driven so much work. “Women more than men tend to rely on nonverbal communication, and that’s hard to do virtually,” says Templeton.

March 31, 2021 - The federal program responsible for bringing vaccines to the vast majority of nursing homes and similar settings inoculated roughly half of long-term-care workers in the nation, and in some states a much slimmer percentage, as of March 15, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided to the Center for Public Integrity. In seven states plus the District of Columbia, the program vaccinated less than a third of staff members. Now the federal program is winding down in the coming days, leaving states and facilities to figure out how to vaccinate the remainder of workers in settings where COVID-19 has already taken a heavy toll. Though they represent a tiny fraction of the American population, long-term-care residents made up 34% of the nation's COVID-19 deaths as of March 4, according to the Covid Tracking Project. Low vaccination rates among staff at these facilities mean that workers continue to have greater risk of contracting COVID-19 themselves or