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In a population of 44,991 people [9], throughout the entire pandemic there have been 2 COVID-19 deaths [10] and 918 confirmed infections as of September 24, 2021. This is a death rate of 2/44,991 = 0.00004 and an infection rate of 0.02. As percentages, these are an infection rate of 2% and a death rate of 0.004%. How do those numbers justify an increased lockdown? Similarly, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, levels of lockdown have been increased recently [11]. The province of 781,315 people has recorded 49 deaths (49/781,315 = 0.0006, or a death rate of 0.06%): the increased lockdown level is justified by one additional recent death. These lockdowns in response to those levels of threat do not make sense. This does not mean that one should be ‘anti-lockdown’, but it calls into question the judgment of public health officials. Excessive lockdowns will breed distrust in the medical profession and public health officials and fuel vaccine hesitancy.
PubMed Central
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The Jab or my Job? COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Healthcare - PMC
As of November 8, 2021, approximately ... that kick-started the industry trend, the novel employment litigation that resulted, and where Missouri healthcare workers and institutions stand with regard to the ongoing vaccine mandate debate....
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, 2020POLITICO
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More Americans doubt vaccine safety than trust it, POLITICO Poll finds - POLITICO
1 day ago - James Colgrove, a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health who’s studied the history of vaccines, said the data reflects “the convergence” of the internet’s rise — and its ability to amplify misinformation — with post-Covid political polarization. The resulting decline of public trust in “scientific experts and medicine is probably more significant than amnesia or lack of awareness over the effects of once-common childhood diseases,” Colgrove said. He expressed doubt that more frequent measles outbreaks would — as some public health experts have indicated — convince skeptics of the seriousness of the disease when their distrust of doctors or the drug industry runs so deep. “We’re all kind of in the post-truth era, and it’s an epistemological crisis,” he said. “Everybody’s living in their own reality, and you interpret the facts in a way that reinforces your belief system.” ·
The Guardian
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Officials ‘missed 99% of data’ before ending Covid vaccine recommendation, memos reveal | US news | The Guardian
1 month ago - Two internal memos on vaccination during pregnancy and childhood, both dated 12 May, circulated at US health agencies before the decision, and they have now come to light as part of the lawsuit brought by the American Academy of Pediatrics against the administration. “I was blown away by those memos,” said Kevin Ault, an obstetrician and gynecologist who served as an expert for ACIP working groups until outside representatives were excluded. Officials “missed 99% of the data on the topic” they analyzed, he said. Putting together their own evidence base and making decisions via internal memos is “highly unusual”, he added. Naima Joseph, a maternal fetal medicine specialist at Boston Medical Center who served on the ACIP working group for the Covid vaccine, said: “The citations were not evidence-based, but more like biased perspectives.” Taking away the recommendations is “not aligned with international recommendations, such as the WHO”, she added, and the move put the US out of step wit
Brownstone Institute
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What Covid Policy Did to Doctors Who Refused to Stay Silent
March 14, 2026 - Universities depend on funding. Physicians depend on licenses. When the boundaries of acceptable opinion begin to narrow, most professionals instinctively step back. It is not cowardice; it is survival. But the cumulative effect of that silence is profound. When enough physicians remain quiet, the illusion of consensus begins to replace the reality of debate. Over the course of the pandemic, I gave more than 4,000 television and media interviews, attempting to explain what physicians were seeing on the front lines and defending the principle that doctors must be allowed to think, question, and treat patients according to their best clinical judgment. The experience was both exhausting and illuminating. Again and again, I found myself explaining basic principles of medicine to audiences who had been told that questioning official policy was somehow dangerous.
Reuters
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Child vaccination rate drops sharply in Michigan under RFK Jr's influence | Reuters
1 month ago - “People are becoming a little more open to questioning things because RFK Jr is pushing out information that has never been really readily available on mainstream media,” said Rachel Atwood, a longtime vaccine skeptic in western Michigan. Atwood agrees with Kennedy that the U.S. spends too much time and money on preventing infectious disease and should focus more on combatting chronic conditions like diabetes and obesity. Kennedy has also upended the process for recommending childhood vaccination, ousting a national advisory board and replacing its members with people who share his views. The new board recently led the U.S. government to reduce the number of routinely recommended childhood shots, despite lacking new evidence of harm. A federal judge on Monday blocked those changes, siding with leading medical associations who argued that they would increase distrust in shots and lower immunization rates.
NCBI
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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
Nature
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Five years of COVID vaccines: how a breakthrough created a public-health crisis
December 8, 2025 - Physician and science communicator Kristen Panthagani talks about why public trust in vaccines has fallen since the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Miryam Naddaf is a science writer based in London. ... Fred Schwaller is a freelance writer based in Berlin. ... On 8 December 2020, a 90-year-old British woman became the first person in the world to receive a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Five years on, more than 13.64 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered. Thanks to the rapid roll-out of these vaccines, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 was no longer a public-health emergency in May 2023. ... This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Southwell, B. et al. J. Public Health Manag. Pract. 32, 135–143 (2026). ... Public trust in science has declined since COVID — virologists need to unite around safety standards ·
Annenberg Public Policy Center
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Stark Divide: Americans More Confident in Career Scientists at U.S. Health Agencies Than Leaders | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
March 5, 2026 - Confidence in one’s own health care provider remains the highest of all measured items, including U.S. agencies, their leaders, and career scientists, and is significantly higher than confidence in the major professional health organizations (AMA, AHA, and AAP). Wave 28 of the Annenberg Science and Public Health (ASAPH) panel survey was conducted Feb. 3-17, 2026, among 1,650 U.S. adults. Data were collected by SSRS, an independent research company, via web and telephone using a nationally representative probability sample from SSRS’s Opinion Panel. The margin of error is ±3.5 percentage points. The panelists are quarantined from other survey panel membership to avoid response bias from other surveys. The ASAPH panel has been fielded continuously since April 2021 across 28 waves. Download the topline and methodology report. The policy center has been tracking the American public’s knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors regarding vaccination, Covid-19, flu, RSV, and other consequential health
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.
Washington Post
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Americans more confident in career scientists at U.S. health leaders, survey finds - The Washington Post
March 5, 2026 - Americans express greater confidence in federal career scientists and independent medical groups than in the political leaders running U.S. health agencies, and they are more likely to accept vaccine recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics than from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a University of Pennsylvania survey.
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.” ·
Hatchardreport
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The Consequences of Putting Medical Professionals in Charge of Pandemic Policy | Hatchard Report
Witness the near collapse of the New Zealand medical system. We lost a few thousand medical professionals to vaccine mandates. Has this played a part? Undoubtedly. Was it necessary or helpful? No. We now know that unvaccinated individuals create a strong pool of natural immunity after initial infection which would have been a huge asset in our health system. Repeat mandates across the whole economic spectrum, toss in lockdowns and stay at home orders, and you have a prescription for economic chaos. Discover that vaccines don’t actually work and even lower the immunity of the workforce, and you have entered a generational economic downturn. Find that vaccines reduce the birth rate and increase all-cause mortality among working age people, and you have cancelled the stability of the world’s economic system altogether. That includes the world’s food supply system that is already under threat from climate change.
CIDRAP
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Up to 60% of health care workers may have long COVID 4 years after infection | CIDRAP
1 month ago - ilona titova / iStock · Four years after infection with the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 strain, up to 60% of health care workers (HCWs) in Switzerland still reported at least one COVID-19 symptom, although the number of participants dwindled over ...
City Journal
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Booming Employment in Health Care
February 27, 2026 - Americans are using more and more medical care. ... Americans are using more and more medical care. ... City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank. Are you interested in supporting the magazine?
ACS
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COVID 19: Looking back on the past year’s challenges | ACS
Volunteers from all walks of the health care system have stepped up to assist the government and private sector in vaccinating all members of the public. An example of volunteerism and the desire to be altruistic is the emergency medical technicians, paramedics, nurses, and physicians who have been trained as STOP THE BLEED® instructors. Many of these professionals have given their time to assist in the national vaccination initiative. Volunteers are essential to turbocharge the vaccination process, as nurses and other personnel from the hospital environment are increasingly required to perform their normal activities in the hospital. The American College of Surgeons issued a call to action to all health care professionals who want to be part of the vaccination team.† The government and other health care agencies that are performing vaccinations are welcoming this new volunteer workforce, which will be able to inject the increasing supply of vaccinations into the arms of the entire U.S
Becker's Hospital Review
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A new quiet majority in medicine raises big questions
February 24, 2026 - The question for hospitals, health systems and academic medical centers is no longer how to get more women into the profession. It is whether the profession’s structures are prepared for a future in which women comprise a growing share of its workforce, and whether institutions are ready to confront long-standing gaps in compensation and career advancement, as well as cultural barriers that representation alone has not resolved. “Now we’re at this point where the profession as a whole really needs to address systemic climate and environmental issues that have prevented everyone from equally rising in their career ranks, and also from being able to practice medicine in the best way that they possibly can,” said Diana Lautenberger, senior national adviser and program leader of gender equity initiatives at the AAMC. Becker’s spoke with medical school leaders and industry experts about what this demographic shift means for healthcare organizations and what steps institutions should take to
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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 ...
MGMA
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One year into COVID-19 vaccinations, most medical practice workers are protected
That poll signaled a shift from ... only 18% of practices mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for workers, while another 69% recommended vaccinations and only 13% had no policy in place. The latest poll also shows the limited extent to which further vaccination mandates might have in worsening the staffing crisis facing most of the healthcare industry. An Oct. 5, 2021, MGMA Stat poll revealed that only 38% of medical practices have had staff quit or terminated due to COVID-19 vaccine requirements...
American Medical Association
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Most Americans lack confidence in health info from federal leaders | American Medical Association
March 6, 2026 - AMA membership offers unique access to savings and resources tailored to enrich the personal and professional lives of physicians, residents and medical students. ... “In decades of real-world data demonstrating the lifesaving impact of timely vaccination in the midst of high seasonal flu and RSV activity and a significant resurgence in measles cases across the country, it is more important than ever for the public to have transparent and consistent communication from trusted sources,” AMA President Bobby Mukkamala, MD, said in an AAP press conference at the time. “We urge parents and caregivers to continue partnering with their child’s physician to make vaccination decisions. Together we can help prevent the reemergence of disease with devastating consequences like polio, measles and pertussis, and keep children healthy and safe,” Dr. Mukkamala added.