Many of the vaccinated that have bad symptoms or get hospitalized have been found to be immunocompromised. It is a VERY small number and has no significance when 97% of Doctors ARE vaccinated and advising US people to get vaccinated. Other countries are begging to get the vaccine!

Hate to say it but I have to agree.

What was the design of the survey?? Is it statistically significant? I don't know.

However, if it was a simple "are you vaccinated?" survey, the results might be quite biased. Every doctor(medical doctors, not the pretenders or quacks) knows damn well he/she should be vaccinated. So if he/she wasn't, they might not own up to it.

Also, in my experience, you can't get 96% of doctors to agree on whether the Earth is round, much less get vaccinated.

I never claimed to be a Medical Scientist or a Doctor with a good golf swing. I am merely a person that has the time to watch and read the news and some science journals. I then try to write in my own words what I have absorbed - to the best of my ability. None of us, except maybe Blue fire remnants, is perfect. A large % of what is written on this forum is opinion. I don't think in terms of links - I do NOT have a photographic memory. I try to give an opinion that may (?) or may NOT point others away from purposeful disinformation and/or propaganda. A current Medical Scientist would, obviously, NOT be interested in my opinions on the future trajectory of the DELTA or other variants. However, it IS possible (?) that some others might be? Thank you!

So "doctors" are a separate category from health care workers. Because that was one of the groups identified that weren't getting vaccinated at a high rate. I'm not too surprised because many don't even want the seasonal flu vaccines. Maybe they know something we don't?

You're wrong on all counts. The people who are "rejecting" science are not the ones who want to put up a wall to stop people from entering the country illegally. The facts are there along with the statistics but you don't want to believe them because it doesn't fit your overall world view/narrative.

Science, as it happens, is currently falling on its face. The constant shifting of opinions, contradictory information,the back-tracking, the ever-changing directives and mandates, etc. They're making it easy to distrust them, and in turn, write off the vaccines.

Methinks you may have got the wrong take home message from my post......

I'll leave the replies to others----way too much low hanging fruit here:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

(Once again) I'll bite...

Ivermectin????
 

Ivermectin was what I wormed my horses with, what kind of doctor prescribes ivermectin for Covid????

Yes, sometimes people don't take the advice of their doctors and they die. It happens every day. COVID is no different. Also, you mentioned "friends and neighbors" being affected, but again, we don't have control over others' lives. You can only try and gently persuade them because anything more forceful doesn't work. People get angry as it is a personal decision.

Case in point, I have a close friend who's 80. She has a myriad of underlying conditions/health problems (double cancer survivor, half a lung, heart problems) and if she got COVID she'd be a goner. She stubbornly refuses to get the vaccine because not enough is known about it and she thinks there might be unforeseen side effects. I tried to explain that isn't a smart gamble to take at her age, and getting a vaccine is the prudent thing to do. Surprisingly, some of her friends in her age group don't want to get the vaccine either, and both her son and daughter (in their 50's) aren't vaccinated. It didn't help matters when she told her doctor she wanted to wait until more was known about the vaccines and he agreed with her (there's one of your unvaccinated doctors right there!).

Bottom line is, we got into a slight argument about it as I kept trying to convince her but in the end I had to stop or it might have ruined our friendship. You can't save people from themselves. You can try, but ultimately they are in control of their own destiny.

You keep citing these "facts" with nothing to back them up...

As of 08/02/2021, the fully vaccinated rate in the UK was 58.1%. Nowhere NEAR 85%

uk vaccination rates - Google Search

Japan, who's mask compliance is at 98%, is currently experiencing its highest numbers of positive covid tests EVER...

japan covid cases - Google Search

Should I also repeat myself (once again) about the low number of nurses and other hospital employees?

Oh, and did you not read that that "poll" came from a sample of only 300 doctors?

Completely false...

I mentioned about the health care workers (nurses, etc.) not wanting to get the vaccine and a poster thought I equated that with the stats on the doctors, which was not my intention. I merely wanted to point out that nurses and other health workers were not on board with the vaccinations and perhaps that was telling in some way.