I've read that up to 76% of the medical professional in some EU countries are refusing the vaccine, so I wonder why they do that if the science is so valid.
Antivaxx craze and fake news network effects can only explain so much.
Antivaxx craze and fake news network effects can only explain so much.
I looked it up. 76% of "nursing home staff" in France are refusing the vaccine. I don't generally take my vaccination advice from people working in care homes, and the Reuters article implies that it is generally because these employees are skeptical of the government, not on any scientific basis: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-france-va...
>Why the scepticism?
>The nurse who spoke to FranceInfo said that the arguments her colleagues gave against the vaccine were typical of those being shared often online.
>“It’s too fast, there is a lack of objectivity, the vaccine is hiding something, why have they still not found a vaccine against AIDS...” she said.
Which seems more like general news story type arguments rather than anything scientific
From what I've read, all of the vaccines approved for emergency use so far in the US and EU stop 100% or close to it of severe cases and hospitalizations. Vaccinated people who get COVID get a case that is no worse than a mild to moderate seasonal flu.
The high efficacy vaccines reduces your chances of getting COVID at all quite a bit more than the ones with lesser efficacy.
For someone like me, who works at home and only goes out every so often for groceries, if I get COVID there is a very good chance I'll notice symptoms before I would next go out, and so can quarantine myself and not spread it.
My main concern, then, is ensuring that if I do catch it I get at most a mild case. Any of the vaccines will do that for me, so for me it makes the most sense to take the first one offered to me.
For health staff, they won't be working at home. If they get COVID they might have plenty of chances to spread it in the couple of days or so it takes to start showing symptoms. And the people they will be spreading it to, besides other health workers, will include people who are already weakened from whatever they have come to the doctor or hospital to have treated.
So for health staff we need more than just turning their cases mild. We want to stop them from getting it in the first place. Hence, they should be getting the high efficacy vaccines.
Cite or you get a downvote. Name the country and the vaccine type.
Would I take any of Moderna, J&J, etc. developed under scrutiny and forced to open their data to the public? Sure.
Would I take one of the Russian or Chinese vaccines that have had questionable data releases? Probably not.
Relax I just wrote from memory - I remembed the number, not the source, but someone gave an actual source. Happy?
> Would I take one of the Russian or Chinese vaccines that have had questionable data releases? Probably not.
I will happily take any vaccine that has been tested over 10M peoplefor over 1 year - even better if it's a tried and true old technology (not mRNA) like at least Astra Zeneca.
Until then, I will wait and let the other find out the potential dangers for me.
I am young and healthy, almost no risk, so waiting won't change my plans or behaviours.
And I don't presume to tell anyone what they should do (even if I really prefer if everybody got vaccinated, for herd immunity) - just what I am doing for myself.
But that is bullshit.
A.) Because we did already vaccinated more than 10 m people with each vaccine.
B.) We already did phase 2 trials to know it is safe!
Repeat after me: Vaccines are at least 1000x to 100000x safer than going unvaccinated.
It might be hard to comprehend, but vaccines are very safe.
> One reason for the scepticism is that those recommending the vaccine are the same people - the French state - whom care home workers blame for their low pay and tough working conditions, said Malika Belarbi, a care worker and trade union official.
So, basically, this has nothing to do with whether the vaccines are or are not medically okay but everything to do with the fact that the workers don't trust the people who have crapped on them.
And, when you say care workers, normally those people are NOT medical professionals (most, in fact, are probably immigrant labor).
The downvote stays.
You're not a hacker news celebrity. You have no authority here. You need an ego check. I just upvoted him for no reason other than to demonstrate 1=1.
Thanks for the example in a nutshell.