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North Carolina’s top public health official said Tuesday that most nursing home workers are refusing to take coronavirus vaccines being offered in a state that has now become one of the slowest in the nation to get doses into peoples’ arms.

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Cohen noted that vaccine hesitancy among long-term care staff is “concerning,” given the anecdotal reports the state has gathered thus far. North Carolina is working with Walgreens and CVS, which are responsible for vaccinating residents and workers in long-term care settings, to access and report concrete data. She believes North Carolina is experiencing something similar to an estimate Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine made last week noting that about 60% of staff in long-term care settings have refused vaccination.

“I caution it’s anecdotal, but we are definitely hearing that more than half (are) declining (the vaccine), and that is concerning,” Cohen said.

According to the state’s COVID dashboard, nearly 166,000 vaccine doses were allocated to long-term care facilities in the state, as of Monday. Of those, 13,338 doses had been administered.

Why are so many in France hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine?

Misinformation and a history of health scandals have led to a powerful anti-vax movement, presenting France with a fresh challenge in the pandemic.

Woodchopper wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:33 pm

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In contrast, both latter surveys show that the UK has much higher support for vaccination, with 77% of those surveyed in December stating that they would get a Covid vaccine. So despite Wakefield etc, support for vaccination is high. However, I worry that 77% might not be enough to reach herd immunity.
https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-attitud ... ember-2020
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Elderly Britons are REFUSING to take Pfizer's Covid vaccine because they'd rather 'wait for the English one'

sTeamTraen wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:59 pm

Anti-vaxxers have had great success in France. I'm not sure why more there than in neighbouring countries, all of which also have idiots on Facebook. It used to be one of the most science-minded countries in Europe.

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:42 pm

This little sketch is pretty funny:

https://twitter.com/JoshBerryComedy/sta ... 0610592768

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:41 pm

Not linking because it's the Mail scum, but:

Elderly Britons are REFUSING to take Pfizer's Covid vaccine because they'd rather 'wait for the English one'

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:41 pm

Not linking because it's the Mail scum, but:

Elderly Britons are REFUSING to take Pfizer's Covid vaccine because they'd rather 'wait for the English one'

Research shows that some surprisingly simple interventions can make a difference. The one with the biggest proved impact, Milkman says, is to make the desired action—in this case, vaccination—the default. A 2010 study at Rutgers University showed that informing people that a dose of flu vaccine was waiting for them at a specified time and place (although the appointment could be changed) boosted their vaccination rate by 36 percent, compared with a control group that was e-mailed a Web link to schedule their own appointment. In other words, opt out works better than opt in.

jimbob wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 07, 2021 3:44 pm

sTeamTraen wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:59 pm

Anti-vaxxers have had great success in France. I'm not sure why more there than in neighbouring countries, all of which also have idiots on Facebook. It used to be one of the most science-minded countries in Europe.

They always seem to be keen on homeopathy though. No data, just based on how often I've seen homeopaths on high streets in France.

Woodchopper wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:20 pm

The Best Evidence for How to Overcome COVID Vaccine Fears
Social science offers valuable lessons about ways to convince those who are hesitant about the shots
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... ne-fears1/

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:41 pm

Not linking because it's the Mail scum, but:

Elderly Britons are REFUSING to take Pfizer's Covid vaccine because they'd rather 'wait for the English one'

border_reiver wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 07, 2021 9:23 pm

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:41 pm

Not linking because it's the Mail scum, but:

Elderly Britons are REFUSING to take Pfizer's Covid vaccine because they'd rather 'wait for the English one'

Our local BBC news reported this tonight. Some local GPs reporting patients asking to 'wait for the English one'. They interviewed the GP who was our MP 2017 - 19. He was too polite to say "F*** off and die then" but that was pretty much what I was shouting at the telly.

Vaccine rollout hits snag as health workers balk at shots

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

The desperately awaited vaccination drive against the coronavirus in the U.S. is running into resistance from an unlikely quarter: Surprising numbers of health care workers who have seen firsthand the death and misery inflicted by COVID-19 are refusing shots.

It is happening in nursing homes and, to a lesser degree, in hospitals, with employees expressing what experts say are unfounded fears of side effects from vaccines that were developed at record speed. More than three weeks into the campaign, some places are seeing as much as 80% of the staff holding back.

“I don’t think anyone wants to be a guinea pig,” said Dr. Stephen Noble, a 42-year-old cardiothoracic surgeon in Portland, Oregon, who is postponing getting vaccinated. “At the end of the day, as a man of science, I just want to see what the data show. And give me the full data.”

Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA

Widespread acceptance of a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) will be the next major step in fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, but achieving high uptake will be a challenge and may be impeded by online misinformation. To inform successful vaccination campaigns, we conducted a randomized controlled trial in the UK and the USA to quantify how exposure to online misinformation around COVID-19 vaccines affects intent to vaccinate to protect oneself or others. Here we show that in both countries—as of September 2020—fewer people would ‘definitely’ take a vaccine than is likely required for herd immunity, and that, relative to factual information, recent misinformation induced a decline in intent of 6.2 percentage points (95th percentile interval 3.9 to 8.5) in the UK and 6.4 percentage points (95th percentile interval 4.0 to 8.8) in the USA among those who stated that they would definitely accept a vaccine. We also find that some sociodemographic groups are differentially impacted by exposure to misinformation. Finally, we show that scientific-sounding misinformation is more strongly associated with declines in vaccination intent.