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Closing the Gap on COVID-19 Vaccinations in First Responders and Beyond: Increasing Trust - PMC
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
Frontiers
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Frontiers | Physicians' Perspective on Vaccine-Hesitancy at the Beginning of Israel's COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign and Public's Perceptions of Physicians' Knowledge When Recommending the Vaccine to Their Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study
February 7, 2022 - The findings of the current study indicate that the health system tends not to tolerate physicians who are hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccination or who actually oppose it, whereas the study physicians tend to be more tolerant. This result leads to the conclusion that the point of view of the system does not reflect the views of the physicians themselves. Indeed, it appears that the study physicians are more understanding of vaccine hesitancy and of the reasons for being unsure about the vaccine. One of the reasons for this greater tolerance may be that even physicians who were vaccinated had concerns and doubts about the COVID-19 vaccine. Therefore, they are able to identify and empathize with hesitant physicians, despite their own willingness to be vaccinated. Moreover, scientists and people in the medical profession are encouraged to ask questions, such that expressing doubts is an integral part of the medical profession.
There are nurses not getting vaccinated
Keep in mind there are multiple tiers of "Nurses" which range from taking a few months of training classes to get a near minimum wage job, to, "almost a junior doctor, with close to the same level of schooling, that didn't do a residency and specialization"
I'm going to wager that the number of nurses that are anti vax slant strongly towards the former.
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October 9, 2021Almost half of all health care workers in U.S. haven't had COVID-19 vaccine, survey shows
Every single person at the hospital i work at was offered the vaccine. Compliance among doctors and midlevels was almost 100%. Nurses were about 60%, but we had a lot of nurses contract covid, so a lot of them have chosen to delay their vaccines. Medical assistants and techs only had about 33% compliance. I'm not sure if it's an education issue with that group, but it's remarkable how many of them refused the vaccine. We have 9 medical assistants and 3 front desk receptionists at the urgent care i take shifts at. Out of those 12 employees, only 2 were vaccinated
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March 20, 2021Study finds that vaccinated health care workers had a 30 percent reduction in absenteeism compared with nonvaccinated health care workers
Hold on... there are health workers that don't vaccinate? I'm ignorant on the subject but I thought working in the health field meant mandatory vaccination for the protection of patients
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March 12, 2018Half of nursing at my hospital is refusing coronavirus vaccination: anyone else seeing this? If you are, have you found ways to improve the situation?
At my sisters hospital, one of the pharmacists gave a power point presentation to the ED nurses, going over the data with them and taking time to answer all their questions. They were hearing things about it causing Bell’s palsy and it being controversial for pregnant women. He explained in a way they could understand, how the incidence was the same as it was for the general population. He also helped them understand that the risk to pregnant women was not known but that the risk of Covid to pregnant women was high enough that he would recommend it to his own wife, to protect her from Covid complications.
She said at the end of the presentation, 100% of the nurses signed up for a time slot to get vaccinated, where before, it was 50%. Incredible.
She was stunned that it truly is a knowledge gap, and not an ideological issue. They were just uninformed and needed to hear it being explained by someone they trusted and respected. (they have a good relationship with pharmacy.) I hope this helps, good luck.
Edit: I will try to get the power point friends, it’s not my hospital so I don’t know if I can make the connection but for the good of humanity, I will ask her to send him this link and consider uploading it.
I’m sure most of you are very busy but if anyone wants to take on this task themselves, it might be the best way- but I certainly will pass the word along.
EDIT: hope this is helpful! If it’s not, don’t shoot the messenger, thanks for everything you do!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jW9i5u7jfFkOT5Wj4C-SZFYAhRBO7_W2/view?usp=sharing
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December 24, 2020ScienceDirect
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Are COVID-19 vaccination mandates for healthcare workers effective? A systematic review of the impact of mandates on increasing vaccination, alleviating staff shortages and decreasing staff illness - ScienceDirect
January 27, 2024 - Forty percent completed three doses, while 40 % received two, 12 % one, and 8 % none. Three key themes emerged: (a) COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, (b) COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and (c) needs for quality maternal care.
Daily Mail
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California medical staff gave COVID-19 vaccines to RELATIVES instead of healthcare workers
January 2, 2021 - 'This could include veterinarians, combat medics and corpsmen, medical students, EMS professionals, first responders, and many others who could be easily trained to administer vaccines,' he proposed. Romney also proposed a scheme to 'Schedule vaccinations according to a person's priority category and birthdate: e.g., people in group A with a January first birthday would be assigned a specific day to receive their vaccination.' Referring to his experience overseeing the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Romney also included what could be seen as a pitch to the Biden administration to offer his own assistance, saying: 'I have experience organizing a major logistical event,' though adding humbly that it was 'nothing on the scale of what is called for today.' As of Friday, West Virginia has still vaccinated the highest percentage of its population, followed by South Dakota and Maine.
Science-Based Medicine
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Why is anyone surprised that there are so many antivax physicians? | Science-Based Medicine
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
Research Square
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Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccination among Healthcare Workers in Sudan: A Cross Sectional Survey | Research Square
July 26, 2021 - The majority were females (53.3%), Medical Doctors (55.4%), and located in the capital state; Khartoum (76.0%). The absolute refusal of COVID-19 vaccine was expressed by 16% of the respondents while 57% were willing to get vaccinated.
Frontiers
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Frontiers | COVID-19 Vaccination Acceptance Among Healthcare Workers and Non-healthcare Workers in China: A Survey
July 5, 2021 - This is the first study on a large-scale vaccination of healthcare workers and non-healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study provides guidance for the vaccination of Chinese population, especially for non-healthcare workers. This study has some limitations. First, in this study, an online questionnaire was used, and the public may have problems such as information deviation or false filling when filling in the questionnaire, which requires further research. Second, we used a web push technology to make the survey. We could not obtain a balanced feedback from different cities in China. From S-table, the regional imbalance of responders was obvious. However, we have to point out that the number of medical staff and non-medical staff was relatively balanced. Chinese adults have a high degree of acceptance of vaccination, and healthcare workers are more willing to be vaccinated than non-healthcare workers.
PubMed Central
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COVID-19 Vaccination and Public Health: Addressing Global, Regional, and Within-Country Inequalities - PMC
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
Homeland Security Newswire
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COVID-19, Covid-19 vaccines, medical profession, treatments | Homeland Security Newswire
Broadly disseminated misinformation about the disease — e.g., how the virus spreads, effective treatments, vaccine efficacy and safety, and more – contributed to the erosion of doctors’ commitment to treat infectious disease patients because of doctors’ fear that they would contract the disease. A systematic review posted in Clinical Infectious Diseases reveals that, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many physicians felt less ethically obligated to provide care to infectious-disease patients if they fear contracting the disease. A Duke University–led team reviewed 155 published studies exploring treatment obligation and refusal, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and pandemics up to October 25, 2022. “During pandemics, healthcare providers struggle with balancing obligations to self, family, and patients,” the study authors wrote. “While HIV/AIDS seemed to settle this issue, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rekindled debates regarding treatment refusal.” ·
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‘I’m not an anti-vaxer!’—vaccine hesitancy among physicians: a qualitative study | European Journal of Public Health | Oxford Academic
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 ...
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Experiences of U.S. frontline physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study | Archives of Public Health | Springer Nature Link
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 ...
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How COVID-19 threatens the careers of women in medicine | AAMC
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.
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Initial distribution of COVID‐19 vaccines to front‐line hospital workers and community first responders—A prospective descriptive study - PMC
24 Historically, December 15, 2020, was the first date of vaccine administration for this study and for many other health care providers and first responders. It represented a concept this study was not designed to measure—a sense of relief and hope for the future and an eventual return to ...
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Many Nursing Home Staff Opted Out Of Getting COVID Vaccines : Shots - Health News : NPR
March 31, 2021 - In spite of all these efforts, many workers are reluctant to take the shots because they don't trust information about the vaccines' safety or they don't wish to be among the first to take them, experts say. "There are many reasons to blame nursing homes and the federal government," says David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School who studies long-term care.
BuzzFeed News
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Doctors Are Attacking COVID Vaccines And Promoting Bogus Cures — And Getting Away With It
September 29, 2021 - Neither the Federation of State Medical Boards nor professional medical specialty bodies that have threatened to remove certifications of expertise if doctors spread COVID-related vaccine disinformation have weighed in on whether doctors should be punished for off-label COVID prescribing. Warren Newton, president of the American Board of Family Medicine, acknowledged that he believes ivermectin is ineffective. “But ivermectin is not the cause of the public health emergency right now,” he told BuzzFeed News. “I really want to focus on vaccination.” · There has been at least one attempt, apparently unsuccessful, to discipline a doctor over their use of hydroxychloroquine. Richard Urso, a Houston-area ophthalmologist and another cofounder of America’s Frontline Doctors, claimed last year he was facing complaints over his use of the drug. In October 2020, the conservative news outlet the Texan obtained a letter stating that Urso had been cleared by the Texas Medical Board because “there wa
Medscape
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Nearly Half of Frontline Healthcare Workers Not Vaccinated: Survey
June 28, 2021 - Sixty percent of survey participants who treated or provided assistance to COVID-19 patients had received their first vaccine dose; only 42% of those who didn't treat or provide assistance to patients had gotten their first shot.
AMA
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Time for doctors to take center stage in COVID-19 vaccine push | American Medical Association
May 22, 2021 - The AMA has developed frequently-asked-questions documents on COVID-19 vaccination covering safety, allocation and distribution, administration and more. There are two FAQs, one designed to answer patients’ questions, and another to address physicians’ COVID-19 vaccine questions. Phoenix endocrinologist Ricardo Correa, MD, is intimately familiar with the difficulty of pushing ahead with vaccination, especially among younger people at lower risk of serious illness from COVID-19. Dr. Correa, an AMA member, is highly active with the Spanish-language version of #ThisIsOurShot, called #VacunateYa. He has become frustrated with the apparent limits of broad-based appeals on vaccination. While 64% of Hispanics tell KFF pollsters they’ve been vaccinated or plan do so ASAP, 17% are in wait-and-see mode, 9% say definitely not and 18% say they’ll get the shot only if required.
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Over 100,000 doctors and various health professionals have now united against the government planned genocide, with the pharmaceutical giants ready to start the slaughter in the long term care homes via an untested vaccine that purposely skipped ...
MIT Technology Review
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Vaccines are the latest battleground for doctors on social media | MIT Technology Review
December 29, 2020 - After months fighting covid misinformation, medics are using apps like TikTok to allay vaccine fears. But some have found that sharing has risks. ... A.W. Ohlheiserarchive page ... AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis · Valerie Fitzhugh has watched the news a lot more over the past four years, certainly more than she remembers doing at any other point in her life. In the first months of the pandemic, she kept hearing one message, from news outlet to news outlet, that she couldn’t stop thinking about: there weren’t enough people of color, particularly Black people, participating in clinical trials for the wave of potentially life-saving vaccines for covid-19. So she signed up for one. Fitzhugh is a physician, and an associate professor of pathology, immunology, and laboratory medicine at Rutgers University. But participating in the trial felt like a different sort of calling.
Pew Research Center
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How Americans View the Coronavirus, COVID-19 Vaccines Amid Declining Levels of Concern | Pew Research Center
May 7, 2025 - Awareness of long COVID also shapes views on its importance: Those who have heard a lot about long COVID are more likely than those who have heard a little about it to say it’s extremely or very important for medical professional to address it (76% vs. 60%). One-in-five Americans now say the coronavirus is a major threat to the health of the U.S. population, down from a high of 67% in July 2020. Concern about the coronavirus as a major threat to the U.S. economy has also declined dramatically. Today, 23% of Americans say it’s a major threat to the economy, compared with 88% in May 2020. The pandemic spurred an economic recession in 2020 and a spike in unemployment that reached the highest levels since the Great Recession. Federal policy on the coronavirus has changed as public concern – and the incidence of severe illness – has fallen. The Biden administration ended the public health emergency for the coronavirus pandemic in May 2023.