Nearly half of Pennsylvania nursing home staff declined coronavirus vaccines

[ForgoTheConsequence]

Only 52% of staff at Pennsylvania’s nursing homes opted to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to a long-awaited survey released Thursday by the state Department of Health, despite how hard-hit the facilities were by the pandemic.

In every Pennsylvania county, the rate of vaccine decline among nursing home employees was much higher than among residents. Among the five Philadelphia-area counties, the percentage of workers declining the vaccine ranged between 32% in Chester County and 42% in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties.

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/covid-vaccine-nursing-home-pa-philadelphia-staff-resident-hesitancy-20210415.html


In my state, we can't even fill appointments. I'm not feeling optimistic.

[secondwind]

1. One would think the nursing homes would have requirements

for people who work there, given the delicate conditions of some patients.

This is surprising

[mucifer]

2. Unlike the flu vaccine it's under emergency authorization so people can decline it Lots of

nurses where I work in Illinois are refusing it.

But, seems the nursing home residents everywhere are mostly getting it so we aren't seeing outbreaks in nursing homes now.

That should be enough information to prove to nurses that the vaccine is stopping people from dying. But, nooooo they continue to believe in crap.

[secondwind]

6. What a shame. This is why we will continue to struggle with the virus 🦠

[mucifer]

10. I'm hoping once it's no longer under emergency use they can require at least healthcare workers

to get it like they do the flu shot.

There just might be an insane amount of healthcare shortages if that happens and people quit.

What an effing mess the evil people have wrought.

[soothsayer]

3. Because they hate the residents they care for?

[mopinko]

4. no jab, no job.

this is cray cray.

i had an encounter w the clerk at a u-store. she had a mask that kept sliding down. i gave her a tip to tighten it up.
she said her other job was in health care and she had to double mask and wear a face shield.
me- you getting your vax?
her- no. we dont have to, so i'm not.
at which point i couldnt wait to get out the door.

you give put upon ppl a say in a big decision, and a lot of them will say no cuz they can.
dont ask. just do it.

[patphil]

5. I agree. Healthcare workers should be required to take the vaccine.

If they don't want to get vaccinated, they can't work in a facility where they come into contact with elderly or sick people.
I don't see that as an unreasonable requirement for employment.

[mopinko]

7. they make you get plenty of other jabs.

[dchill]

8. Seems simple enough.

[triron]

16. Agree. Fire their asses.

[David__77]

9. Too bad there's no paid COVID sick leave mandate in PA.

That would cover the time spend getting and if needed recovering from side effects of vaccine.

[dalton99a]

11. Vaccine 'hub' providers are struggling to fill appointments in Texas

https://www.kut.org/covid-19/2021-04-13/despite-expanded-eligibility-vaccine-appointments-through-austin-public-health-go-unfilled
Despite Expanded Eligibility, Vaccine Appointments Through Austin Public Health Go Unfilled

The director of Austin Public Health says the department needs to change its process to reach and vaccinate more people in Austin and Travis County after nearly 3 out of 4 first-dose coronavirus vaccine appointments released Monday went unfilled.

"In conversations with some of my colleagues across the state of Texas, a lot of us are getting to a point where we're going to have to pivot and change strategies," Stephanie Hayden-Howard told a joint session of the Austin City Council and Travis County Commissioners Court on Tuesday. "Because now we're at a point where there is more vaccine that is readily available in our community. So we must be strategic and start [making] those changes."

After Austin Public Health expanded eligibility to all adults, 14,000 appointments were made available Monday, but only about 3,400 appointments were scheduled.

[pinkstarburst]

15. Which is ironic given what a mess

Austin Public Health has been from the start. Confusing sign up system. Lots of user frustration where people would have to fight for appointments day after day sitting in front of their screens only to be turned away. Very unfriendly messaging from APH through their website and the media constantly telling people to get the vaccine somewhere else--not through them even though
APH was getting more doses per week than anyone else in the area. Rules for giving out appointments that rather than allowing you to sign up on a waiting list and be called when it was your turn, told you basically to go away and get your vaccine from pharmacies and doctor's offices (who weren't receiving any doses.) That they wanted to focus on certain demographics only and said everyone else could come back at some later date that they had no interest in specifying.

So... I just wish they could have been more welcoming to all the people who were really eager to get the vaccine the past 4 months.

[Desert grandma]

12. If vaccines are going unused in Texas and Pennsylvania

send them to Michigan where the Gov is asking for more vaccine.

[roamer65]

13. THIS.

[RobinA]

14. Despite Healthcare Workers,

getting vaccinated in PA remains difficult. At least in the Philadelphia 'burbs.