the headline reads: nearly 80% of healthcare workers refuse vaccine, and that aught to show you several things and i suspect one of which will be soon, its required. mandatory;

As many as 80 percent of health care workers at some hospitals and nursing homes are refusing or delaying getting vaccinated against coronavirus.

Only about 18 percent of workers at an Illinois veterans’ nursing home have gotten their first shots, while nearly all residents at the same home said ‘yes’ to the jab.  

Staff, nurses and doctors in many states remain leery of the vaccines, concerned that there’s not enough proof vaccines are safe and reticent to be test subjects.

Hospital and care facility administrators have even tried bribing workers with free breakfast or raffle prizes in an effort to incentivize them to get the shot.

Nursing home staff seem the most reluctant among health care workers – even as higher rates of residents are willing to get COVID-19 vaccines.

It’s a worrying trend, especially in states that have inflexible plans for who gets vaccinated first. Health care workers have been put almost universally at the front of the line, and some stats are waiting to offer the shots to other groups until more health care workers are vaccinated.........read more......