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Posted on 12/22/2020 5:15:59 PM PST by cutty
Many employees at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., have reservations about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, and CEO Anita Jenkins is trying to get workers to follow her lead by getting vaccinated, according to CNN.
The hospital, a major healthcare provider for the Black community, received 725 doses of the Pfizer vaccine Dec. 15 and expects to receive a second shipment this week. As of Dec. 18, only about 600 of the hospital's 1,900 employees had signed up for the shots, according to Kaiser Health News.
"There is a high level of mistrust and I get it," Ms. Jenkins told Kaiser Health News. "People are genuinely afraid of the vaccine."
The vaccination numbers, though low, still exceeded expectations, Ms. Jenkins told CNN. An internal hospital survey of about 350 employees in early November showed that 70 percent were not willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine or would not take it immediately after it became available.
Ms. Jenkins received the shot Dec. 15 in hopes of inspiring staff to get vaccinated. She's part of a widespread effort by healthcare experts and community leaders to combat vaccine hesitancy among Black Americans. About 35 percent of Black Americans said they probably or definitely would not get the vaccine if it was determined to be safe by scientists and widely available for free, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study cited by CNN.
Howard University Hospital isn't the only healthcare provider with workers who turned down the vaccine. At Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas, so many workers declined the COVID-19 vaccine that the hospital offered doses to other medical workers in the region, according to ProPublica.
The hospital received 5,850 doses of the vaccine, and it quickly became clear that not enough people eligible for the vaccine, like staff who work directly with COVID-19 patients, were opting to get it, DHR Health CMO Robert Martinez, MD, told ProPublica.
"You start to see similar numbers across the country, all this mistrust and misinformation," Dr. Martinez said.
After the first day of distribution, DHR reached out to other hospitals and healthcare facilities in the region to offer doses of the vaccine. ProPublica reported that the vaccine ended up going to non-medical personnel as well, including state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. He told ProPublica he was invited to take the vaccine by DHR after officials explained to him that all eligible workers who wanted the vaccine received it.
Don’t nobody say nothin bad about Miss Jenkins!
Mr Jenkins? You’d be surprised at the number of nurses that will not take the regular flu vaccine.
And then they will scream about how the Trump administration is racist for allowing the virus to spread among the staff when other hospitals' staff members get vaccinated.
(I'll bet Calypso Louie is telling them the vaccine will make them sterile, turn them openly homosexual or cause them to involuntarily convert to Judaism.)
3000 healthcare professions were hurt in the first
week. word gets around angering the NWO, but
pleasing GateXi and FauXi and Xi.
Personally I’m monitoring two friends who got the Pfizer vax on Saturday. Fire chief (mid 50s) and nurse (72).
As of this morning both were still alive.
I plan on checking on them daily.
Was the staff of 1,900 informed there were only 725 doses available? I'm guessing they were, and figured they were healthy enough not to bother, or they were thinking there were going to be so many people to sign up, they wouldn't have a chance.
If more than 725 people had signed up, how were the doses going to be allocated?
By sign-up order?
By lottery?
Minorities have priorities?
Yep. Howard University, whwere the Biden vote was probably 93 percent.
ALL the employees of a hospital are eligible?
That is evil.
Has the CDC never heard of medical ethics? Or the Feds and the District of Columbia Government?
According to long established Christian moral theology.....When medical treatment must be rationed, it should first be given to those whose lives are most apt to be saved by its use.
In extreme cases, it can be given to those who would likely to save if they were not stricken, such as an ICU nurse, or a respiratory disease guru.
But in this and other hospitals, all are eligible. All includes the accountants, the billing clerks, the lawyers, the cooks, the security guards, the boiler room operators. The vaccine should first be given to those whose lives would most apt to be saved. Elderly, the obese, diabetics, those with heart conditions, drug additions, etc.
Not Congress. Not the Vice President. Not Public Health Experts. Not the Military.
I could care less if these folks don’t want to take the vaccine.
Why is it news?
Nope. Not anymore. Massachusetts will inocculate people in jail before seniors. Welcome to the Democrat Death Panels.
Can understand their resistance...
The vaccine might significantly lower the IQ of people of color...
Medicine, science, engineering, philosophy, and literature would suffer immeasurable loss...
They must have heard that Tracy Abrams was used in the vaccine trials a few years ago...
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