United States.- Health workers in New York, they have refused to receive the coronavirus vaccine, firstly because it prefers to cede its place and secondly, because it would distrust its effectiveness.
Given the speed with which it was performed the vaccine and authorized, some doctors and diseases in the state, they have stated that they are wary of the vaccines because they consider that they have not been sufficiently proven.
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Although the coronavirus pandemic has hit United States, part of the health personnel, generally in favor of vaccines, prefer not to be vaccinated, although they do not rule out that they would do so later, when in time, more studies have been done.
“I think I’ll be vaccinated later, but for now, I’m suspicious,” Yolanda Dodson, 55, who is ill at a Bronx hospital in the middle of the spring, was at the center of the deadly battle with the virus.
Studies (on vaccines) are promising, but the data are insufficient, said Dodson, who nevertheless calls for recognition of those who are willing to correct the risk.
Diana Torres, a nurse at a Manhattan hospital where several colleagues died as a result of the virus in the spring, said she was particularly suspicious of vaccines that were approved urgently in December by the federal drug agency FDA, at the request of the outgoing government. Donald Trump, who treated the pandemic as a “joke.”
These vaccines “were developed in less than a year, and will be validated by the government itself and federal agencies that will let the virus spread like wildfire,” he said.
The first vaccines they will be like “a large-scale experiment. They haven’t had enough time or people to study the vaccine … So this time, give up my turn and wait for what happens,” he resumed.
On her Facebook page, several of her fellow nurses express similar reservations.
No, thank you, I’m no one’s guinea pig, I wrote one of them.
This mistrust seems to be quite widespread among health personnel, about 20 million people in United States, according to Dr. Marcus Plescia, medical director of ASTHO, the American association that brings together health officials from the states of the country.
“There are a lot of people who say, ‘I’m going to get vaccinated, but I’m going to wait a little,'” he said. “Even I would feel better if I knew that more people already did it and everything went well,” Plescia will explain.
“This could become a real problem,” he acknowledged, all the more so when new vaccines will be authorized under an emergency procedure that makes it almost impossible, legally, to impose vaccination on hospital staff.
Too fast?
Mohamed Sfaxi, a radiologist at a New Jersey hospital who has been witnessing a rise in the number of covid-19 patients for three weeks, is one of those trying to convince his colleagues with doubts.
“We have people who are suspicious, we have to talk and explain the data,” said the 57-year-old doctor, who has “no hesitation” and hopes to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
Distrust, signaled the specialist, must of the innovative technique of the vaccines Pfizer / BioNTech y Moderna -technology of the “messenger RNA”, which consists of injecting strands of genetic instructions to make our cells make “antigen” proteins specific to the virus- already the speed with which the vaccine was conceived.
But the fact that we went very fast is simply because science has made progress since everyone was dedicated to this, he said.
This doctor who daily observes lungs damaged by the virus He then plans to test himself for antibodies every three or four days. “This will allow me to see when I start to have an immune reaction and have a little less anxiety.”
Official concern
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, noted the danger of insufficient participation in the announced vaccination campaigns, including by health personnel.
There is this whole anti-vaccine movement in general, to which is added an additional skepticism about this vaccine, Cuomo said.
Polls reflect this mistrust: according to Gallup, 58% of Americans say they are willing to get vaccinated when possible, a slight increase compared to 50% in September.
It is as a result of this distrust that the state of New York, like six others, created its own commission of vaccine evaluation, stressed the governor.
Dr. Plescia, however, hopes that the professional conscience of the medical profession will make them reflect.
“Most of us feel under the ethical obligation to vaccinate,” he said. “We are in charge of vulnerable people, we don’t want to transmit diseases to them.”