Most vaccine-hesitant healthcare workers got COVID-19 shots

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/02/04/healthcare-workers-COVID-19-vaccines/2381643998326/

Most healthcare workers at a large U.S. hospital who initially refused COVID-19 vaccines eventually went and got their shots, new research reveals.

"This study found healthcare workers' attitudes about COVID-19 vaccination could change in a very short period of time," said lead study author Charlesnika Evans. She is a professor of preventive medicine in epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

"It shows there is opportunity to change people's decisions about not getting vaccinated," Evans said in a university news release.

For the study, her team surveyed nearly 4,200 healthcare workers at Northwestern Medicine when COVID-19 vaccines became available last winter. At that time, three-quarters said they intended to take the shots. By spring, a second survey found that 95% had been vaccinated, including 90% of those who had been unsure.

Of those who initially said they didn't plan to get vaccinated, nearly 60% had done so by spring, according to findings recently published in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

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[Quakerfriend]

1. Well, their decision to go ahead and

get vaccinated is most likely related to the fact that future employment in any other hospital or medical setting was not likely, if they weren’t vaccinated.

I don’t see this ‘trend’ among anti vaxxers in non medical
professions.

[Pobeka]

2. And none of them grew an extra head or became magnetic! n/t