In this piece, @DhruvKhullar hits it out of the park on why healthcare workers - particularly our support staff - are appropriately hesitant to get vaccinated against #covid19.
(Hint: it's not about the vaccine.) https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/why-are-so-many-health-care-workers-resisting-the-covid-vaccine?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned
(Hint: it's not about the vaccine.) https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/why-are-so-many-health-care-workers-resisting-the-covid-vaccine?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned
At @getusppe, more than 90% of requests for PPE come from nursing homes, long term care facilities, and the like.
When workers' needs have been ignored for 10 months (&, honestly, long before that) - why would they now trust their employer?
When workers' needs have been ignored for 10 months (&, honestly, long before that) - why would they now trust their employer?
This story particularly hurts. This woman protected herself, and educated herself - but then couldn't get a shot.
She could be an ambassador for trust in her community. But our system blocks her, at every turn, from getting protection.
She could be an ambassador for trust in her community. But our system blocks her, at every turn, from getting protection.