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200,000 NHS staff refused vaccine

(31 Posts)
farview Sat 06-Mar-21 15:29:23

Why are these NHS staff not willing to be vaccinated?

BlueBelle Sat 06-Mar-21 18:53:39

I do know when I worked in the NHS the uptake for the annual flu vaccine wasn’t very good

MerylStreep Sat 06-Mar-21 19:02:44

This is another subject that can’t be debated in a reasonable/ answered way without the R word rearing it’s ugly head.
All I will say is: all the ‘experts’ know why.

JenniferEccles Sat 06-Mar-21 19:28:28

I think it should definitely be a condition of employment unless an individual has a valid medical reason why they shouldn’t have the vaccine.

It’s very demoralising to think that the high number refusing could jeopardise the whole programme.

We have to accept that take up will never be 100% but when a large number of those are caring for sick vulnerable people it’s just not acceptable.

sazz1 Sun 07-Mar-21 19:07:40

Perhaps it's because some people have had side effects and that's worried them.

grannysyb Sun 07-Mar-21 19:56:55

My DD was vaccinated on Friday, Oxford AstraZeneca, had a bad night on Friday, but still willing to have her second jab. In today's papers, there is an article about an Asian doctor who has been ringing his patients, and convincing them to have the jab, he has good results, we need more like him.