June 28, 2021 -- Tim Oswalt had been in a Fort Worth, TX, hospital for over a month, receiving treatment for a grapefruit-sized tumor in his chest that was pressing on his heart and lungs. It turned out to be stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
"'Well, you know, it's easy to [catch it] in a hospital," Oswalt says he was told."We're having a bad outbreak. So you were just exposed somehow.'" Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston has 1,180 beds and sits less than half a mile from Houston Methodist Hospital. But in terms of worker vaccinations, it is further away.
"We have to protect our health workforce, and we have to protect our patients. Hospitals should be the safest places in the country, and the only way to make them safe is to have a fully vaccinated workforce," Gostin says.The HHS system designed to amass hospital data was set up quickly to respond to an emergency. For that reason, experts say the information hasn't been as carefully collected or vetted as it normally would have been.
, for example, found 24% of Americans said they definitely won't get the vaccine. Another 12% say they plan to get it but are waiting.by researchers at New Mexico State University that assessed hesitancy in more than 76,000 health care workers around the world found about 23% of them were reluctant to get the shots.
"There is outreach work to be done there," says Robin Mejia, PhD, director of the Statistics and Human Rights Program at Carnegie Mellon University, who is leading the study on Facebook's survey data. "These are also high-contact professions. These are people who are seeing patients on a regular basis."
At AdventHealth Gordon, a 112-bed hospital in Calhoun, just 35% of the 1,723 workers that serve the hospital are at least partially vaccinated, according to data reported to HHS.One reason some hospital staff say they are resisting COVID-19 vaccination is because it's so new and not yet fully approved by the FDA.
Considering that hospitals are veritable Petri dishes of bugs I wouldn’t want my nurse or other hospital worker unvaccinated either.Mask expert Linsey Marr, PhD, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, said N95 masks and vaccines are both highly effective, but the protection from the vaccine is superior because it is continuous.
Stupid
Why not? By choice? It’s not a supply issue at this point
Failure of duty to do no harm
I mean, 75% is not that bad. Although I've had mine and work with pts, I still wear a mask. Can't be too careful considering people are too scared and too ignorant to get it
More fear mongering by WebMD? No one is interested in your sheepish mentalilty or the fact that you believe everything on fake media.
Good on them
Everyone has a right to so what they want with their body, im not saying its the right one but each their own as long as they are taking all precautions. I cant get vaccinated myself due to my medical history and it would do nothing as i have no immune system. One day maybe i can
That's bad...
And?
Good, shits posion
Just my two cents, but hospital workers who decline to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should be fired. Period. It is unethical and inexcusable to decline to be vaccinated against this disease if you are treating patients.
And yet somehow they’re still alive. It’s almost like it’s a made up virus. Hey this is probably the right place to ask this. Y’all ever isolate the covid 19 strain. I keep asking people associated w the medical field. They just get mad when I ask. Anyone help?
By choice I’m sure as the vaccines are readily available
They need to be fired!!!
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