"...Recent reports have noted, however, that some health-care personnel, including long-term-care staff, are reluctant to be vaccinated.
...People in the health-care field are educated about medical science behind the vaccines’ development and testing, have significant professional experience with serious infections and deaths, and often have an intrinsic desire to protect others.
Nonetheless, there is some reluctance—albeit limited—to being vaccinated among this crucial population.
What is behind this hesitancy?
...The two approved vaccines have received emergency-use authorization from the FDA.
...The determination of the efficacy of the vaccine came from an interim analysis—a reliance on data collected from participants before they had completed the full two-year follow-up period...but the FDA could not conclude with a high degree of certainty that there is long-term protection or the absence of serious side effects.
This may be the root cause of health-care workers’ reluctance...Read all.
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