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COVID-19 vaccine refusal is higher among health and social care workers who feel pressured by their employers
COVID-19 vaccine refusal is higher among health and social care workers who feel pressured by their employers 12 May 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png
Study offers insight into vaccination across ethnic minority groups and emphasises variations in outreach and the importance of voluntary vaccination Share
Health and social care workers who felt under greater pressure from their employers to receive COVID-19 vaccination were more likely to decline it, according to preliminary new research highlighting factors influencing uptake.
A single shot of the Pfizer or Oxford vaccine offers dramatic protection against hospital admission and severe disease in older people, according to a new study from Public Health England (PHE). Health Secretary Matt Hancock hailed the “exciting” real-world data which found either vaccine is more than 80% effective at preventing hospital admission around three to four weeks after the first dose. England’s deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said the data offered a glimpse of how the vaccine programme “is going to hopefully take us into a very different world in the next few months”. The study, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, included more than 7.5 million people aged 70 and over in England.
Professor Jonathan Van Tam said the new data by Public Health England (PHE) on the Oxford vaccine clearly vindicated Britain s approach to mass inoculation against Covid.
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