Who wants to get vaccinated?
When Celine
(the first name has been changed),
a nursing home supervisor
,
asked the staff at the
start of the year
, only a few accepted.
And mistrust won out hands down.
However, since the start of the crisis, many caregivers have testified to their fear of transmitting the virus, despite themselves.
Here, the Covid has already struck, taking away several residents.
But what can make them refuse the injection while the threat still lurks?
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“Many get information on the Internet and come across fake news.
Some caregivers think that the vaccine can delay their pregnancies and since they have not had children yet, they prefer to wait, says Céline.
Others fear having multiple sclerosis, they tell me about the hepatitis B vaccine story in the 1990s, it comes up all the time, ”says the supervisor while this hypothesis was then ruled out. studies concluding that there is no link.
And then there is the fear of what we do not know.
"Never has a vaccine been given in a year, we prefer to take our time, it's too early", recently confided to us a nursing assistant.
Even if membership is gradually strengthening, notes Céline, she is worried about an upcoming offensive of the virus in her establishment.
Now that the oldest are almost all protected, if there is a case, can we blame the staff?
"I think we might have some concerns…" she fears.
While in France, a third of caregivers have been immunized, the Minister of Health sent them a solemn letter on Friday to encourage them to step up the pace.
"That is not enough", he wrote, relayed by the order of the doctors, evoking an "ethical requirement".
"That's it, we were heroes and now we are accused of endangering our patients while we do this job to treat them?
“Gets angry Julien
(the first name has been changed), a
former emergency nurse in the Grand-Est region, also preferring to speak anonymously, proof that the subject is hot.
"A chaos of information"
If he “of course” agreed to be vaccinated like all those we interviewed, resentment against the government remains strong.
And the many contaminations of white coats, due to the absence of a mask last spring, does not pass.
"We feel that everything that comes from the government is the subject of reluctance," reports Quentin Broucqsault, intensive care nurse in Arras (Pas-de-Calais).
To this anger is added a rough message on the AstraZeneca serum, considered less effective than its competitor Pfizer and then just as much.
"A chaos of information and a small margin of uncertainty", summarizes Gilles Pialoux, the head of infectious diseases at the Parisian hospital Tenon.
Of uncertainty?
“Yes, at the beginning, we knew that it protected serious forms but not if it had an impact on the transmission.
From there, a doubt settled and the idea of an altruistic approach was shattered.
Result, now, we row to convince ”.
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So the teacher goes door to door in the wards.
Discuss with each refractory and defend an obligation to vaccinate, “shocked” by mistrust at a time when clusters are multiplying in the hospital.
"Catching the Covid is 10 days of eviction against sometimes one or two in the event of side effects," he recalls.
So when I hear some people refuse the vaccination because they fear two days of fever, my arms fall.
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