NYC firefighters who have seen what COVID does were just surveyed about wanting the vaccine. More than half would refuse it at this time wanting more information. While caution is always a consideration I am shocked that
55% would refuse the shots.
Wherever they are getting information needs to be doing a better job of explaining vaccines and how intensively the ones coming on line have been evaluated for short term risk vs benefit. This, like everything else in America, is going to get political. The "don't trust the government" groups are going to refuse to get shots, to mask, to social isolate and listen to people who ACTUALLY know what they are talking about, not conspiracy mongers and bald faced liars.
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Skepticism about the vaccine also runs high among FDNY EMS members.
“A few are anxious to get it, but there have been a few dozen (online) responses saying, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,' ” Oren Barzilay, president of the Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics and Fire Inspectors union, told the Post. “They were thankful it was not mandatory, because they don’t want to be looked at as test subjects.”
Barzilay added that he would be waiting to see about what independent studies reveal concerning possible side effects before taking the vaccine.
One veteran FDNY member told the Post that the resistance toward the vaccine is a source of frustration.
“The 55 percent doesn’t surprise me. They’re called the Bravest, not the Smartest,” the FDNY member said.
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Independent studies may be well over a year away, probably longer. Vaccine efficacy data is collected almost exclusively by the CDC, and if you don't trust the government and believe the CDC is a scam, then you'll never have a source you believe. There have been nearly 100,000 people in the three vaccine trials that have been reported and no serious side effects have been found.