Many Health-Care Workers Among Those Who Resist the COVID Vaccine

I’ve been seeing lots of reports about people refusing to take the vaccine. Among those who refuse are many healthcare workers.

THE NEW YORKER —

Despite confronting the damage of covid-19 firsthand—and doing work that puts them and their families at high risk—health-care workers express similar levels of vaccine hesitancy as people in the general population. Recent surveys suggest that, over all, around a third of health-care workers are reluctant to get vaccinated against covid-19. (Around one in five Americans say they probably or definitely won’t get vaccinated; nationwide, hesitancy is more common among Republicans, rural residents, and people of color.) The rates are higher in certain regions, professions, and racial groups. Black health-care workers, for instance, are more likely to have tested positive for the virus, but less likely to want a vaccine. (Thirty-five per cent turned down a first dose.) Compared with doctors and nurses, other health professionals—E.M.T.s, home health aides, therapists—are generally less likely to say that they’ll get immunized, and a recent survey of C.N.A.s found that nearly three-quarters were hesitant to get the vaccine.

At Yale-New Haven hospital, ninety per cent of medical residents chose to get the vaccine immediately, but only forty-two per cent of workers in environmental services and thirty-three per cent of food-service workers did. The problem may be most pressing in nursing homes. In December, the governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, said that sixty per cent of the state’s nursing-home staff had declined the vaccine; in North Carolina, the number is estimated to be more than fifty per cent. According to the C.E.O. of PruittHealth—an organization that runs about a hundred long-term-care facilities across the South—seventy per cent of employees in those facilities declined the first dose.

The problem with every report like this that I have seen is that they ignore the reality that these vaccines have their root in abortion.

Tens of millions of Christians have been martyred since the time of Christ. Refusing a vaccine whose existence depends on the remains of aborted children by adopting other necessary anti-COVID measures, such as social distancing, until an ethical vaccine is available, seems doable in comparison.

Maybe, just maybe, many people are refusing the vaccine because they are pro-life.

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