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Originally Posted by blueash
Originally Posted by jimjamuser View Post
97% of US medical Doctors ARE vaccinated. That is a statement that they are making that I will TRUST.
Swoop, using CAPS doesn't make you right. jimjamuser has posted something with an easily Googled claim. So I used the Google and found:
AMA survey shows over 96% of doctors fully vaccinated against COVID-19 | American Medical Association
This is a survey report from early June being done by the AMA of practicing doctors in the USA using the WebMD physician panel. It was not a random survey, it was not Gallup quality. But it is the best data available. You might argue that those physicians who participate in a WebMD panel are better at keeping up to date on new information, or not.
The result of their survey which was 1/2 primary care and 1/2 specialists was that per the press release
AMA survey shows over 96% of doctors fully vaccinated against COVID-19
So I think, unless you have newer better information with a link, jim's statement looks pretty good. I will allow that over 96% does not mean 97%. It could be 96.1% But being that it was done in early June, the number can only have gone up since then.
In the interest in civility, it would be nice to see someone, just once, come online and apologize for calling someone a liar. |
Could be some people confuse this with "medical workers" which tends to follow the general population.
Huge Number of Hospital Workers Still Unvaccinated
"An ongoing monthly survey of more than 1.9 million U.S. Facebook users led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh recently looked at vaccine hesitancy by occupation. It revealed a spectrum of hesitancy among health care workers corresponding to income and education, ranging from a low of 9% among pharmacists to highs of 20%-23% among nursing aides and emergency medical technicians. About 12% of registered nurses and doctors admitted to being hesitant to get a shot."