PA Health-Care Workers Surprisingly Decline COVID Vaccine
Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine acknowledged this week some health-care workers have declined the vaccine, and noted some work in nursing homes, where the COVID toll has been especially high. by David Wenner, pennlive.com / January 7, 2021 A nurse shows a test for the coronavirus at the Kershaw Mental Health Clinic in Camden, South Carolina on Monday, March 23, 2020. (Joshua Boucher/The State/TNS) TNS
(TNS) - It’s well-known a substantial number of Americans are reluctant or unwilling to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
But it came as a surprise that a substantial number of health care workers are declining it.
The federal government planned for
20 million coronavirus vaccinations by the end of 2020. That has proved to be a bit of an overestimation. The actual totals of about 3 million “certainly are not at the numbers we wanted to be at the end of December,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said
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Dec 31, 2020
More than two weeks after the COVID-19 vaccine distribution began in Pennsylvania, only about 10% of the healthcare workers and nursing home residents and staff targeted in the initial phase of the stateâs vaccination strategy have been immunized.
Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine has estimated there are about 1 million people in this initial group that will be offered the vaccine before the state moves onto a wider group that would include teachers, prison workers, and workers in PPE and food factories.
Levine said the vaccine distribution at hospitals has been slowed by the fact that it got underway just ahead of the Christmas holiday and the nursing home vaccination program just launched on Monday.