Anyone else feel ashamed of getting the Covid shots?

There seems to be some regret among health professionals if nearly half believe they cause serious side effects and don't work. They should know better than anyone.

Nearly 42 percent of healthcare workers are worried that Covid-19 vaccines will cause serious side-effects, while 44 percent don’t believe the jab offers them protection against the virus, a new study has found.

A total of 595 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals employed by the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Dublin and the northeast responded to a survey of attitudes in relation to Covid and influenza vaccines.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/two-five-healthcare-workers-fear-33529054

The report is here https://imj.ie/attitudes-towards-covid-19-and-influenza-vaccination-in-healthcare-workers/ , I find it confused in it's answers, still 42% believing it will causes "serious" side effets is a huge number, I would have expected a lot less.

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Wow. 18.6% is an extremely poor uptake figure for Covid booster. Less than half the Flu uptake.

I'd imagine it was the nonsense that you were again spinning into (having been thoroughly and utterly refuted on the CT forum) again from this post:

What I have always questioned is your belief, and many others, that this reduction in severity has since 2020 always been the primary intended benefit of the vaccines, and that is what they were approved for.

But you're probably best off following your own advice:

The great thing is I don't really care anymore, my priorities have shifted now the pandemic has ended, and nobody is foaming at the mouth to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country, demonising anybody who decides not to.

Though, according to moonage, maybe your opinions were themselves caused by the needle ;)

The way that question is asked directly after questions about administration is misleading also , as it could have been understood by some of those replying as whether they were worried about side effects after administration of the vaccine to another person also Less would have concerns about influenza vaccines because they have been administering them for years now .

And on the uptake of the booster , healthcare staff in general received all the original primary course and boosters ...these particular boosters would have been dose 5 for most . This woukd have been after many had been infected through different waves of the disease.

The post that said that hcws 'regret ' the vaccinations , is not borne out either by the article they quote or the data . In fact in the article linked ..

"The authors of the research, which was published in the latest issue of the Irish Medical Journal, said the responses showed great awareness and support for vaccination among healthcare workers.

However, they noted that “sizeable small proportions” believed the Covid-19 vaccine would make them unwell and cause serious side-effects. “These findings highlight misconceptions about -healthcare worker- vaccination, and are consistent with other published works,” they wrote."

And as has been pointed out before no numbers are produced anymore of those in healthcare who have been infected in the months beforehand , which will of course negatively influence uptake because there has to be a wait time of 6 months after infection before a booster can be given .

There are caveats which make reference to this in the HSPC data also quoted above by another but incompletely .

On the subject of why people are not getting as sick with Covid now it is because we have reached an estimated seroprevalence of antibodies against the disease through infection and vaccination in this country of 99.6% up...the disease is now endemic ..and unless it mutates to a newer more virulent strain, the majority will be able to fight it off .

Also it is unlikely unless you have been isolating and masked for the last 4 years that you would not have come into contact with it at some point and if you have a mild infection eg post Omicron , it might not have caused serious enough symptoms to warrant testing , especially in younger people many of whom do not even notice symptoms anymore .

And this is a good thing . This is where we wanted to be in 2020 when nobody knew how this would play out .

This post is not to downplay Covid's seriousness for those with underlying illnesses or immunocompromise who can still have serious disease and should always be considered at risk regardless of vaccination etc .

And we still have large numbers suffering long term effects from the disease who are increasingly the forgotten people with few resources allocated to their continuing health needs .

.https://seroepi-hpscireland.hub.arcgis.com/

( forgive me directing all this to you at this hour 🙈 I know you know this but the post just grew !)