I am surprised that 30% of healthcare workers in NY are refusing the Covid vaccine.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned hospitals and health-care workers on Thursday that if they don’t take Covid-19 vaccines while it’s offered exclusively to them in the early days of the state’s inoculation drive, they will lose their priority status when the vaccine rolls out to the general...
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I am disgusted they haven't opened up vaccination to other vulnerable groups just waiting for healthcare workers to decide.
"In New York City, health officials have thousands of shots available “without arms to give injections to,” Mitchell Katz, chief executive officer of NYC Health and Hospitals, said in a separate Thursday briefing.
He said every eligible worker in the city’s public hospital system, the largest in the U.S., who wants to be vaccinated has received a shot. That’s left the city with thousands of vaccinations in storage.
The initial batch is reserved for health-care workers, and Cuomo doubled down on his decision not to open up vaccines to other vulnerable cohorts until all people in the first group get it.
The 11 hospitals have “almost no one left to vaccinate within its employee base,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in his Thursday briefing. “We could be reaching folks this minute who are vulnerable. I’ll speak to our law department further, because I think what’s happening here makes no sense.”
Around 30% of health-care workers in New York City have resisted getting vaccinated, either because they distrust the shot or believe they have become immune through prior infection, said Katz. “All of a sudden, we have appointments available.”
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