It's definitely hesitancy, not supply, among HCWs. I've had the opportunity to be in clinics and hospitals a lot the past two months and I try to ask everyone I interact with if they got vaccinated: shockingly many haven't. I care precisely because it likely impacts transmission.
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I've been there too, and my partner is a pediatrician. I have yet to encounter a single HCW who refused a vaccine. Most were impatient for when they could get theirs. But that's anecdotal. The data shows supply is the problem, and that hesitancy is going down.
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But I take your point, there's certainly been pockets of hesitancy, even among HCWs. The question is: what is driving that hesitancy? The data we have has consistently shown that ideology is a major driving force.
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I'm curious about this: have any surveys disentangled HCW hesitancy from general population sentiment?
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Haven't seen at national surveys that separate—and what surveys we do have aren't great—but we have multiple streams of evidence for strikingly high level of HCW hesitancy and everyone I talked to at the national and federal level is worried out of their minds about this already.
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Everyone I work with was more anxious about delays in getting theirs than about safety, efficacy, etc.
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Of course. Multiple things exist *at the same time.* There is an enormous unmet demand (which will resolves fairly soon as the supply numbers are looking great) AND a significant number of people who are saying they will not, and a large number of HCW who already declined.
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The people who coming to the UNC vaccine clinics couldn't be happier. Millions who want to get vaccinated ASAP and don't have access are anxious and enthusiastic. None of that erases the other, concurrent and soon-to-be more visible problem of those who are not so enthusiastic.
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*resolve
. My concern here is that, with all things pandemic, waiting to act till the problem hits us full-force will mean it will be too late. Dr. Fauci is already on the record saying hesitancy is his biggest concern, but not sure what their *concrete* plan is.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
I don't disagree. Vaccine hesitancy is certainly not a new phenomenon. My larger point is that the data shows that ideology is driving most of the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and finger-pointing at scientists for nuanced messaging while giving Fox a seemingly free pass is... odd
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I don't think of this as giving Fox a free pass though. Also yes and no. A pandemic means you have new twists to what is certainly an older story. (Btw our polling data sucks because we skipped the "it's a pandemic so need to do some qual work to develop the answer choices" bit.)
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(Also if you track the Fox and Fox-adjacent anti-vaxxer crowd, you'll see them constantly and quite deliberately amplifying the kind of messages that David's piece is highlighting. So while there are multiple strands here, they do interact, too).
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If you talk to people working in LTCF vaccinations, you do hear a lot of decline as combination of: too fast development/safety, "I think I already had it", and makes no difference to my life (transmission mismessaging).
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