Some hospital and nursing home administrators have dangled everything from vouchers for free breakfasts to a raffle for a car to straight cash payouts to get employees to roll up their sleeves.
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THREAD: The nation’s biggest immunization rollout in history is facing pushback from an unlikely source: health care workers who witnessed COVID-19′s devastation firsthand but are refusing shots in surprising numbers.http://apne.ws/No3vD8I
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“It’s far too low. It’s alarmingly low.” - Neil Pruitt, CEO of PruittHealth, a nursing home chain in the South where only 3 in 10 of workers offered the vaccine so far have agreed to take it.
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The pushback comes amid the most lethal phase in the outbreak yet and it could hinder the government’s effort to vaccinate somewhere between 70% and 85% of the U.S. population to achieve “herd immunity." FULL COVERAGE: http://apne.ws/aVjFCCL http://apne.ws/V9PiY9E
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We are never going to get over this
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Always expected this. Many of them feel like guinea pigs who are being offered a vaccine whose LONG TERM effects have not been studied at all.
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They should be immediately dismissed from their positions until they're vaccinated.
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So fire the majority of all the healthcare workers.... And then what....u gonna take their place?
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Most medical workers aren't doctors....
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