Augie Ray1d ago

One of the disappointing things I guess I learned as a result of the pandemic is that healthcare workers are not uniformly as smart or cautious as I expected. According to a new survey, #COVID19 vaccination rate among HCWs is up this year, but still shockingly less than 50%. Just 40.2% were vaccinated in 2024-2025, despite the fact studies show HCWs are more at risk of Long COVID. The rates were:
Doctors 46.7%
Pharmacists 41.3%
NPs 32.4%
Nurses 26.8%

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/120650

Here's How Many Doctors and Nurses Are Getting Flu or COVID Shots

Nurses in particular do not seem to be fans of the COVID-19 vaccine

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@augieray The number of nurses who ended up being some brand of anti-vax was pretty alarming to me.

Definitely called into question this underlying assumption I had that nurses are well educated / smart. Even many doctors... May be smart or well educated in a sense, but for many it is more limited in scope than I previously thought. Maybe a way to say it is they are much more narrowly educated than I had assumed.

Apr 6 at 5:21pmPhanpy