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Stay home plea in Forest Town after staggering surge in Covid-19 infections Forest Town currently has almost 1,000 cases for every 100,000 people Updated A Covid-19 testing centre at County Hall, West Bridgford. (Image: Nottingham Post/Marie Wilson) Never miss another Mansfield story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information...

Final Call News Concerns about safety and efficacy topped reasons why some medical personnel, firefighters and others are not taking Covid-19 vaccines. Many frontline nurses say information about the vaccines is lacking. Katarina Thompson, a registered nurse, is also the Service Employees International Union’s chief spokesperson on Covid-19 for its healthcare workers. Her number one goal, especially with the coronavirus surging, is looking at ways to keep health workers safe versus any vac...

Print When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended last month that residents and staff of long-term care facilities be among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, Sondra Norder breathed a sigh of relief. The president and CEO of St. Paul Elder Services in Wisconsin has seen 100 residents contract COVID-19 across her two campuses over the course of the pandemic. Twenty-eight have died. “The trauma we have been through, the isolation we have been through, the demand p...

Jan 11, 2021 Officials working to get the COVID-19 vaccine to those who need it most have run into an unfathomable problem. Health care workers are buying into the nonsense that the vaccine might not be safe, and are refusing the shot. Not all of them are so bull-headed, of course. Many are doing the right thing and getting the shots so they are safe AND they are doing their part to keep their patients safe. But in both nursing homes and hospitals across the country, a disturbing percentage of...

More than three weeks into the vaccination campaign, some places are seeing as much as 80 percent of their staff holding back.

A significant number of healthcare workers in US hospitals and nursing homes are turning down coronavirus vaccines due to unfounded side-effect fears.

Despite having intimate knowledge of the pain and death caused by the coronavirus, a surprising number of US healthcare workers are refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine jzitser@businessinsider.com (Joshua Zitser) © Provided by Business Insider A dentist receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Anaheim on January 8, 2020. mark Rightmire/Getty Images A large number of healthcare workers in US nursing homes and hospitals are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. As much as ...

The Associated Press The desperately awaited vaccination drive against the coronavirus in the U.S. is running into resistance from an unlikely quarter: Surprising numbers of health care workers who have seen firsthand the smisery inflicted by COVID-19 are refusing shots. It is happening in nursing homes and, to a lesser degree, in hospitals, with employees expressing what experts say are unfounded fears of side effects from vaccines that were developed at record speed. More than three weeks int...

The desperately awaited vaccination drive against the coronavirus in the U.S. is running into resistance from an unlikely quart

Jan 9, 2021 Officials working to get the COVID-19 vaccine to those who need it most have run into an unfathomable problem. Health care workers are buying into the nonsense that the vaccine might not be safe, and are refusing the shot. Not all of them are so bull-headed, of course. Many are doing the right thing and getting the shots so they are safe AND they are doing their part to keep their patients safe. All of those health care workers and first responders who have done the right thing ar...