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Many US health workers baulk at virus jabs – PerthNow
Many US healthcare workers who have seen the death and misery inflicted by COVID-19 remain wary of receiving vaccines.
The desperately awaited vaccination drive against the coronavirus in the US is running into resistance from an unlikely quarter: surprising numbers of healthcare workers who have seen first-hand the death and misery inflicted by COVID-19 are refusing shots.
It is happening in nursing homes and, to a lesser degree, in hospitals, with employees expressing what experts say are unfounded fears of side effects from vaccines that were developed at record speed.
More than three weeks into the campaign,…
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