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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
Not really given health professionals have the same biases around vaccines as the general population.
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Roger that.
At my last routine physical in March I asked my primary care doc why slightly over half of front line health care workers are declining any vaccine (I'd read at the time). His answer: "They're stupid!"
He's on the board of directors of the hospital with 2,500 employees and one of his responsibilities was to order Pfizer vaccine for everyone. He sent out a survey and it was almost 100% wanting the jab so he ordered 5,000 doses total. When the first shipment arrived, only 20% showed up. He wound up sending the rest to the state before it expired.
In the interval before the second shipment arrived, most employees had changed their mind and wanted a shot but he had already committed most of the second shipment to the state and told them they'd have to go to the mass vaccination centers on their own time.