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A Clinician’s Obligation to be Vaccinated: Four Arguments that Establish a Duty for Healthcare Professionals to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 | Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | Springer Nature Link
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).
Frontiers
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Some studies on the COVID-19 vaccine also compared physicians' viewpoints regarding the vaccine to those of nurses ( 38). Most pointed to a higher response rate among physicians than among nurses ( 39) and indicated that gender is an influential factor, such that men tend to be more compliant than women ( 40). In conclusion, the studies deal with viewpoints toward vaccines of health workers and their barriers to getting vaccinated and not with their immunological knowledge about vaccines. Third, medical studies are marked by gaps and inconsistencies with respect to vaccinations. Many studies reveal gaps in medical students' knowledge regarding their self-efficacy in communicating information about vaccinations ( 41). A specific work package in the EU project on Vaccine Safety, Attitudes, Training and Communication (VACSATC) ( 6) focused on possible improvements in pre-service training of future healthcare workers.
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, 2020VICE
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Healthcare Workers Are Refusing the COVID Vaccine Because No One Is Immune to Bad Ideas
July 27, 2024 - A recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 29 percent of healthcare workers were “vaccine hesitant.” The percentage in the general population was around 27 percent.
ScienceDirect
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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 - 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.
Daily Mail
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California medical staff gave COVID-19 vaccines to RELATIVES instead of healthcare workers
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.
reluctance by those living in the USA to be vaccinated or to have one's children vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine
Wikipedia
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States - Wikipedia
August 26, 2026 - 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
Science-Based Medicine
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Why is anyone surprised that there are so many antivax physicians? | Science-Based Medicine
April 18, 2022 - A new survey suggests that a disturbingly high percentage of physicians are vaccine hesitant or antivaccine. What should we do about it as a profession?
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
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.
Skeptical Raptor
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Physicians are warned to not spread COVID vaccine falsehoods
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.
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.” ·
The Desert Review
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Why the Medical Profession Failed in Its Response to COVID-19—and Why We Are Doomed to Repeat Its Mistakes | Columnists | thedesertreview.com
3 weeks ago - The same principle applies to vaccine safety. When physicians report unexpected clinical observations, those observations should be investigated, not dismissed or suppressed. The COVID-19 vaccines represented one of the largest mass medical interventions in history. The medical profession therefore had an extraordinary responsibility to monitor their safety aggressively. VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, exists to identify potential safety signals that require investigation. According to VAERS data, there were approximately five times as many reports of adverse events in 2021 as in 2020 per vaccine dose (adjusted for the threefold increase in vaccine doses given during COVID). While VAERS reports do not establish that a vaccine caused an adverse event, the dramatic increase in reports should have prompted heightened scrutiny and investigation—not dismissal by the “experts.” ·
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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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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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Many Nursing Home Staff Opted Out Of Getting COVID Vaccines : Shots - Health News : NPR
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
MDPI
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COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake among US Adults According to Standard Occupational Groups | MDPI
June 23, 2022 - For example, an institution with high vaccination rates among the management-level staff but low vaccination rates among the maintenance staff may face challenges in controlling COVID-19 infection. Our results indicated that highly skilled professionals were more likely to be vaccinated than lay workers and these results remained significant after adjusting for age, sex, and race/ethnicity.
PubMed Central
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Qualitative exploration of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among healthcare workers in Sierra Leone: do the ‘trusted messengers’ trust the vaccine? - PMC
Thematic analysis was guided by the 5C model of vaccine hesitancy—confidence, complacency, constraints, calculation and collective responsibility—with an additional theme, Epidemic memory as a contextual modifier of the 5Cs, emerging as a contextual lens that influenced participants’ responses across all domains. This experiential component played a major role in the healthcare workers’ decision-making process, adding a significant layer of context to the established 5C model. The findings are presented with participant ID numbers, gender identity and healthcare roles; however, the analysis did not uncover meaningful differences across these categories. While the thematic structure aligns with the five domains of the 5C framework, participants’ narratives frequently traversed distinct decision-making levels—personal uptake, professional responsibilities as health communicators and perceptions of community hesitancy.
Medscape
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Nearly Half of Frontline Healthcare Workers Not Vaccinated: Survey
June 28, 2021 - Despite being prioritized for COVID-19 ... defined as anyone who had direct exposure to patients and their bodily fluids. Nearly seven in 10 (68%) of the workers responsible for diagnosis and treatment, including doctors and nurses, ...
Reddit
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r/medicine on Reddit: What percentage of American physicians are vaccinated?
September 10, 2021 - What percentage of American physicians are vaccinated?
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The state of OR reports percentage vaccinated by license type: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/oregon.health.authority.covid.19/viz/OregonHealthCareWorkforceCOVID-19VaccineUptake/Dash-Overview?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery As of 8/8, 88% of MDs licensed in OR had a vaccine documented. That doesn't include MDs who are licensed in OR but may have been vaccinated in another state or for whom the data didn't cross over for one reason or another. I think >90% is a completely realistic estimate.
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96% is probably the right ballpark. Data around voluntary physician vaccination has consistently been above 90% my entire career. Every hospital I've worked in had around 95% physician vaccination rates for flu each year prior to required vaccinations becoming the norm. The health system I am part of today was in the high 90's for physician COVID vaccination well before a mandate. OTOH, nursing voluntary vaccination rates historically were almost universally around 60% for flu every season in the various places I've worked. Thus, it wasn't surprising to me locally that nurse COVID vaccination rates were around 60% before mandates were announced.
AMA
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Dealing with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health care workers | American Medical Association
March 5, 2021 - Get reliable information on developments in the authorization, distribution and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. ... @JournalofEthics), Arthur Caplan, PhD, head of the medical ethics division at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, outlined the steps health professions and health care organizations can take to boost vaccination rates among skeptical staff and to support a healthy workforce at a critical time. One of the challenges for health care leaders is to discern where workers’ vaccine hesitancy is coming from. An obvious source is falsehoods about vaccines stoked by career anti-vaxxers and amplified by the internet. “I don’t think the health care workforce is as amenable to anti-vax propaganda, but, you know, it’s omnipresent,” Caplan said. “So it could be corroding some of the trust that health care workers have in vaccination.” ·