The Facts:
A survey conducted at Chicago s Loretto Hospital shows that only 40 percent of healthcare workers will not take the COVID-19 vaccine once it s available to them.
Reflect On:
Why does vaccine hesitancy not only among people, but healthcare workers seem to be growing larger and larger every single year?
Before you begin.
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What Happened: Earlier this month Dr. Nikhila Juvvadi, the chief clinical officer at Chicago’s Loretto Hospital, said that a survey was administered there to healthcare workers in December regarding who would get the COVID-19 vaccine and who wouldn’t. The survey found that 40 percent of the hospital staff said they would not get vaccinated and 60 percent said they would.
Published on 3 February 2021
Understanding and addressing exclusion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
This session is designed to meet the needs of health and social development advisers and those from the wider health network and from other cadres with an interest in health, equity and justice.
Why this session now?
The impacts of COVID-19 have been harshest for existing marginalized and excluded groups; although new vulnerabilities have also emerged, and drivers of exclusion have intensified. The impact of COVID-19 on health seeking experiences, opportunities and outcomes is wide reaching with implications for models and understanding of Leaving No One Behind and Universal Health Coverage. To reach the Sustainable Development Goals, policy makers and funding agencies need to consider and confront a number of issues to be discussed in this session, including:
The Facts:
50 percent of healthcare workers and hospital staff in Riverside County are refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Reflect On:
Why are those who have concerns with vaccine safety ridiculed and labelled as anti-vax conspiracy theorists? Why are the concerns never really acknowledged or addressed? Is the COVID vaccine even able to stop/prevent infection and transmission?
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This statement from Ontario Public Health echoes statements made multiple times by Canadian public health agencies and personnel. According to Ontario Ministry Health Senior Communications Advisor Anna Miller,
As a result of how data is recorded by health units into public health information databases, the ministry is not able to accurately separate how many people died directly because of COVID versus those who died with a COVID infection.
What is Dracunculiasis?
Dracunculus medinensis roundworm.
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Limited to remote, rural African countries without access to clean drinking water, it is transmitted exclusively through the consumption of contaminated water. Those who become infected remain asymptomatic for approximately one year.
Upon onset of symptoms, the patient develops a painful blister, usually on the leg or foot, accompanied by burning pain, swelling and vomiting which burst, releasing the adult worm.
What causes dracunculiasis?
A person becomes infected after drinking water that contains copepods, small water fleas infected with
Dracunculus medinensis larvae. Once ingested, the copepod is dissolved by stomach acid, releasing the larvae which migrate through the host intestine into the abdominal cavity.