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Coronavirus in the US: with almost 300,000 new cases in a day, the rejection of doctors and nurses to the vaccine grows

2021-01-03T17:37:35.956Z


In several states, healthcare personnel doubt the effectiveness of the serum and fear adverse effects. Alarming figures


01/03/2021 14:05

  • Clarín.com

  • World

Updated 01/03/2021 2:24 PM

Many of America's healthcare workers, who are on the front lines for the coronavirus vaccine, are refusing to do so.

They allege, among other things, their distrust of the reactions they may experience, while the pandemic advances in several states of the country with record numbers of contagion in recent weeks.

A total of 350,357 people have died from coronavirus in the United States since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest update from Johns Hopkins University, published this Sunday.

The latest bulletin includes

299,087 cases detected in the last 24 hours

and 2,398 new deaths.

In total, since the arrival of the virus in the United States in February, 20,427,780 cases have been detected

.

On Friday the country exceeded 20 million cases

and in the last week the average number of daily cases has been 205,840.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine revealed that about 60% of nursing home workers in his state so far have chosen not to get vaccinated.

Something similar occurs in New York City, where more than half of Emergency Services workers showed

skepticism about the new vaccine, no matter what the laboratory

, highlighted a

New York Post report

.

The rejection began to spread to other states, now joined by California and Texas, which are seeing a high rate from healthcare workers, according to reports.

An estimated 50% of frontline workers in Riverside County in the Golden State chose not to take the drug, the

Los Angeles Times

reported

, citing public health officials.

More than half of the hospital workers at California's St Elizabeth Community Hospital who

were on the list to receive the vaccine did not receive it of their own accord,

the newspaper reported.


Doctors and nurses treat a patient with coronavirus at a hospital in Los Angeles, California.

Many refuse to get vaccinated.

Photo: AP

In Texas, a physician at the Houston Memorial Medical Center noted that half of the nurses at the facility would not receive the vaccine, citing political as well as medical reasons.

The excuse shared by Texas nurses was echoed in a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey, which found that 29% of healthcare workers were "reluctant to take vaccinations," the

Times

reported

.

The newspaper added that respondents who lean against vaccination noted, among other reasons, that they were concerned about how politics influenced vaccine development.

A California hospital nurse who chose not to get vaccinated because she is pregnant said her co-workers who took the same path as she

believe they don't need the vaccine

to overcome the pandemic

"I feel like people think, 'I can still survive until this is over without getting the vaccine,'" April Lu, a 31-year-old nurse at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, told the Times.

The United States continues to report record numbers of cases, and on the first day of 2021 it added more than 160,000 new coronavirus infections, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

More than 20 million cases in the country

The United States reached 20,381,349 confirmed cases and 349,920 deaths from covid-19 this Saturday, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.

On Friday, the first day of the year 2021, the disastrous milestone of 20 million cases was reached, which implies that

the number of infections in the United States doubled in less than two months,

since 10 million cases were reached on the 9 of November.

The United States was one of the first countries to approve and begin using the Pfizer vaccine.

Photo: EFE

This data illustrates

the seriousness of the outbreak in the

United States, which in December registered several daily records in the number of deaths from covid-19 and closed 2020 with a historical maximum of more than 125,000 hospitalized by the disease.

New York State remains the worst hit in the country

by the pandemic with 38,243 deaths, followed by Texas (28,597), California (26,394), Florida (21,890) and New Jersey (19,329).

Other states with large death toll include Illinois (18,208), Pennsylvania (16,307), Michigan (13,306), Massachusetts (12,502), and Georgia (10,960).

In terms of infections, California has 2,371,465, followed by Texas with 1,798,238, third is Florida with 1,354,833, New York is fourth with 1,043,760 and in fifth place is Illinois, with 975,352.

Far from initial estimates

The provisional death toll -349,920- far exceeds the lower limit of the initial estimates of the White House, which in the best of cases projected between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic, when it began to spread dangerously in April and may.

US President Donald Trump lowered those estimates and was confident that the final figure would rather be between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths, although later he predicted up to 110,000 deaths, a number that has also been exceeded.

For its part, the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) of the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are usually set by the White House, estimates that when Trump leaves power on January 20 there will be 420,000 people died and 560,000 by April 1.

Source: ANSA and EFE

CB

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