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A new survey found that nearly half of health workers did not receive a dose of COVID-19.
Led by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation, the poll was taken from February 11 to March 7 by 1,327 people working on the front line within the heath industry, of whom 597 did not receive at least one dose of the shot.
Of the 597 – representing 45% of the total number of interrogations – 232 have a time to get the vaccine (50) or plan to do so (182), while 137 have not decided and 228 do not intend to to get the vaccine. vaccine not at all.
“About 1 in 6 health workers said that if employers had to vaccinate them, they would leave work,” The Washington Post reports.
Speaking to the outlet, global vaccination president at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Bruce Gellin, remarked that ‘health workers are all’, meaning that anyone from doctors is contagious to paramedics at home.
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Demonstrated by demographics, 58% of male health workers received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to 50% of women.
The percentage is highest among the ‘other’ race category, while 57%, 44% and 39% among white, Spanish and Black participants received respectively.
Furthermore, hospital workers were likely to receive at least one dose of vaccine (66%), followed by those who worked in outpatients (64%).
Fifty-two percent of doctors ‘office workers received the vaccine, while 50% of those who work in nursing / care facilities, and 26% of the carers who work in patients’ homes, did.
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As of Friday afternoon, 118,313,818 doses have been administered in the U.S. since the first vaccine, from Pfizer, was approved for emergency use in December, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About one in four Americans – 77,230,061 – received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and more than one in 10 (41,879,357) are now fully vaccinated.
President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would announce a new vaccination target next week, after reaching his goal of 100 million doses during his first hundred days in office on his 58th day, and appealed to all who still hesitant to get their chance.
Biden (78) stressed that vaccines will help end the pandemic, noting that some states are seeing an increase in cases as newer variants spread across the country. “Getting vaccinated is the best thing we can do to fight back against these variants,” he said.
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