A critical care doctor in Houston has said that more than half of the nurses in his unit won’t get the coronavirus vaccine for political reasons, even as medical facilities bend under the pressure of record-high hospitalizations as coronavirus cases surge across the country.
Helps with the distribution plan. Just zero out any planned distribution to Red States, as it’ll just go to waste. Folks who want it can hop over the border to their local Blue State as needed.
To be fair it’s entirely understandable to be hesitant about anything the Trump FDA had a hand in, no?
Fuck 'em. Next!
Sort of like our abortion policies.
It should be mandatory for health care workers. This is just ridiculous.
Stupid is as Stupid Does. Gump, Forest
No. NO. NO! That’s a huge part of the problem. Keep Texans in Texas. Keep Floridians in Florida. Stop The Traveling Superspreaders at the statelines; their music sucks anyway.
Nobody’s making it mandatory while it’s being issued under the Emergency Use Authority, and not as a fully-approved drug.
There can be unknowns, and legitimate reasons for people to avoid it based on their medical risk factors. Political leanings shouldn’t be part of that decision, though.
What, exactly, are these “political reasons?” The article didn’t specify what “politics” are motivating these nurses.
Hey, I had to give a way for them to get it, otherwise @tena would be all over me about how Texas isn’t really that bad, that tons of good people live there, etc.
It’s weird because Trump never said anything negative about vaccines; if anything, he overhyped them and told wild lies about when they’d be available. He obviously saw them as rescuing his political career. So this is ironic.
That’s like a right-wing doctor refusing to wash their hands because the germ theory of disease was first put forward by an Iranian.
Jesus, it’s amazing the propaganda has penetrated so far that people who are handling the sick and dying every day, who likely know other medical professionals who have died from the virus, are just going to skip it. Our nation is in real trouble if the people who should know this stuff put nonsense lies and politics ahead of saving their own lives.
The political reasons are evident: They are toeing the Trump/GOP line.
But he called Covid itself fake news so many times.
And why would you need a vaccine for a fake virus?
Fire them or reassign them to areas where they can “Do No Harm”.
but, but FREEDUMB. sheesh, you some kinda commie?
Right. Are they Trumptards, or do they just not trust Operation Derp Speed?
This from WaPo and I copied the whole thing since it’s free.
But a health-care worker in Alaska had a serious allergic reaction and was hospitalized after getting the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and is in stable condition, according to two people familiar with the situation. Authorities have not released further details about the incident, which echoes two similar cases in the United Kingdom last week involving serious but non-fatal allergic reactions to the vaccine.