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Vaccine Refusal Higher Among Health Workers Who Feel Pressured by Employers, According to New Research

by Michael Curzon
12 May 2021 1:07 PM

New research suggests that health and social care workers who feel greater pressure from their employers to receive Covid vaccination are more likely to decline it. The study, not yet peer reviewed, was led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and “emphasise[s] the importance of Covid vaccination remaining voluntary”, according to its primary author. Here are the key findings.

In a survey of nearly 2,000 [health and social care workers], participants were asked for their level of agreement with the statement “I feel/felt under pressure from my employer to get a Covid vaccine”. This was asked on a four-point scale from (one) strongly disagree to (four) strongly agree. For each additional point of agreement on the scale, participants were 75% more likely to have declined Covid vaccination.

Among unvaccinated participants, worrying concerns were raised about how their vaccination decision might impact their job security. For social care workers, pressure was exacerbated by hearing of care sector employers making Covid vaccination mandatory for staff, and the vulnerability of social care worker positions (e.g. employment on zero-hours contracts).

Feeling pressurised had damaging effects, eroding trust and negatively affecting relationships at work, and often exacerbated Covid vaccination concerns and hardened stances on declining vaccination…

Dr Sadie Bell, Research Fellow at LSHTM and lead author, said: “Our findings emphasise the importance of Covid vaccination remaining voluntary. Organisational factors and workplace culture play an important role in the likelihood of both being offered and getting vaccinated. Health and social care providers need to offer a space for their staff to have ‘conversations’ where they feel safe to ask about Covid vaccination, and not feel judged and stigmatised for having questions and/or concerns.”

The research team used a mixed-methods approach – involving an online cross-sectional survey and interviews – to find out U.K. health and social care workers’ views on Covid vaccination.  1,917 health and social care workers – 1658 healthcare workers and 261 social care workers – completed the survey. Twenty survey participants were interviewed…

The survey revealed common reasons for declining the vaccine were concerns about side effects and a lack of research on the vaccine. It revealed the main motivation for vaccine acceptance was protecting family members and friends, and self-protection from Covid…

Sandra Mounier-Jack, an Associate Professor in Health Policy at LSHTM and study author, said: “Our work shows a move towards mandating Covid vaccination is likely to harden stances and negatively affect trust in the vaccination, provider, and policymakers. Health and social care employers are in a pivotal position to facilitate Covid vaccination access, ensuring staff are aware of how to get vaccinated and promoting a workplace environment in which vaccination decisions are informed and voluntary.”

These findings echo SAGE member Stephen Reicher’s recent warning that the introduction of vaccine passports (that is, a step towards mandatory vaccination) could lead to people refusing to get vaccinated against Covid. If the Government’s aim really is to increase vaccine uptake among health workers (and in the general population) it should abandon any plans for mandatory vaccination.

The LSHTM report is worth reading in full.

Tags: Health Care WorkersVaccine

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steve_w
steve_w
3 years ago

“health and social care workers who feel greater pressure from their employers to receive Covid vaccinates are more likely to decline it.”

or

“people likely to decline vaccine feel more pressured”?

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Susan
Susan
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_w

Exactly!

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LMS2
LMS2
3 years ago

https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/8430-dead-354177-injuries-european-database-of-adverse-drug-reactions-for-covid-19-vaccines/
8,430 DEAD 354,177 Injuries: European Database of Adverse Drug Reactions for COVID-19 “Vaccines”

If it was 84 dead, or even 843, I’d say the vaccines were relatively safe, but 8430 in a few months?? And I’d bet it’s the top of the proverbial iceberg. So thanks, but no thanks.

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mka1221
mka1221
3 years ago

‘The harder you push, the more I’ll resist.’

These behavioural ‘scientists’ at BIT can stick their ‘Nudge Theory’ where the Sun doesn’t shine.

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wendy
wendy
3 years ago
Reply to  mka1221

Yes indeed, I am the same!!! But seems their nudges work on most of the population and some of these try to coerce others too. I have decided I won’t raise the subject of vaccine with anyone. It is my medical business an not theirs.

I really think they will get their 80% of the population though. And when they do perhaps they will leave us alone.

Last edited 3 years ago by wendy
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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  wendy

I hope you’re right, but I fear you’re not. Covid is now the “gift that goes on giving”, with the big difference that this gift apparently has the ability to go on giving, whilst simultaneously changing, and forever mutating into “variants”. As they have seized the agenda and narrative, they can do and say exactly as they want to achieve whatever it is they require. One moment it’s gung-ho for vaccines, but the minute that doesn’t suit, it’ll be bully for lockdowns. We have already had a demonstration of this from the Great Leader himself.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

It’s the new War on Terror.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  wendy

The “vaccine” does not do anything to get to herd immunity though, it just supposedly makes COVID milder in the elderly…

It doesn’t prevent spread (if anything it makes it go under the radar)…

So just ‘cos you accented to being nudged, means you’ll get nudged more.

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WilliamC
WilliamC
3 years ago
Reply to  wendy

They will never leave us alone. The control system put in place for Event Covid will be used for future engineered crises around, for example, food shortages, environmental/climate ‘events’, ‘cyber attacks’, power cuts and so on for ever unless the normal mass of humanity takes power into its own hands.

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Susan
Susan
3 years ago
Reply to  wendy

Wishful thinking, I fear.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  wendy

No, they won’t. They will be mandated for work, play, travel, the minute they get full licensed status.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  mka1221

Quite, with so many behavioural ‘scientists’ in SAGE they should know more about human nature.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago

As this makes perfect sense, but doesn’t come from Whitty, Vallance, Ferguson or the other creeps, the Government is bound to do exactly the opposite. It’s what happens when we have a fatal mixture of weakness, stupidity, greed and cowardice in a bunch of power-crazed psychopaths and sociopaths.

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B.F.Finlayson
B.F.Finlayson
3 years ago

Warning to any (3rd party) employer / company owner / store manager / football club / sports venue / travel company /public house / restaurant / etc, which insists I must have received an experimental Covid 19 ‘vaccine’ (including but not limited to any of those currently undergoing phase 3 clinical trials until 2023, and only approved for usage under emergency government legislation) as a condition of work or enjoyment of previously inalienable civil liberties. 

This group of experimental ‘vaccines’ includes but is not limited to those based on various mRNA technologies (which includes Pfizer-BionTech and Moderna), Adenovirus vector technology (which includes Astra Zeneca), Recombinant adenovirus technology (which includes Sputnik V) and non-replicating viral vector technology (which includes Johnson & Johnson).

This objection covers coercion and/or conditionality being used to force the taking of any medication or treatment, even if fully tested and approved by the relevant authorities. I therefore cite the Nuremberg Code, which forbids coercion and/or conditionality being involved in the decision to take any medication or treatment, whether experimental or not.  The 1st principle of the Nuremberg Code follows the lead of the Hippocratic Oath taken by all medical practitioners and states:

‘The (informed) voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.’

Please note: The manufacturers of those above mentioned ‘experimental vaccines’ which have UK emergency approval currently enjoy exemption from damages (including but not limited to death) caused from experimental ‘vaccine’ side effects. Consequently uninformed recipients unknowingly consent to waive key legal rights to future compensation claims in the event of them or their future offspring suffering an adverse reaction to, or long term consequence of, having taken the experimental vaccine.
 
Therefore any attempt at 3rd party coercion and/or conditionality must also carry with it the absolute obligation for the 3rd party to compensate for ALL side effects suffered by the coerced individual forced to take the vaccine simply to enjoy previously inalienable civil liberties.

Accordingly, the imposition of any form of 3rd party coercion and/or conditionality would therefore be taken to indicate that the 3rd party insisting on the vaccine being administered simultaneously agrees to:
1) Cover all future costs and damages (including legal costs) arising from any health and associated impacts (including but not limited to death) caused by any experimental ‘vaccine’ side effects to the recipient or descendants thereof (arising from possible intergenerational impacts not covered by the limited scope of the emergency testing to date).
2) Compensate any financial disadvantage suffered by the recipient’s immediate family and dependants arising from damage headings including (but not limited to) death, illness, health costs, loss of income/opportunity and other consequential impacts of any experimental vaccine’s side effects.  

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thedarkhorse
thedarkhorse
3 years ago

This obsession with getting 100% of us vaccinated….makes no sense. It’s not necessary. But this isn’t, as we have always said, about the virus.
There seems to be no sign of the average sheep rebelling. The rest of us dissenters, well no-one is listening to our concerns, no-one is interested, we are just viewed as cranky idiots. “Come join the flock”, they say, “you can’t survive alone”.
Hubby once spoke of 80:20 splits, in regard to other unrelated events in history. This is where we are again. 80% on board, 20% not. It doesn’t mean the 80% are right, though.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  thedarkhorse

80/20. Pareto’s Law.

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cubby
cubby
3 years ago
Reply to  thedarkhorse

I agree with the 80:20 split – the 20% being those who know it’s all wrong, the 80% being unquestioning or easily persuaded and duped. The big problem we 20%ers have is that half of those who know it’s wrong have a vested interest in keeping up the charade, mostly because their livelihood depends on it. This includes all those NHS doctors workers who dare not speak out. So the real resistance is only 10%. Are we enough to make a difference?

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  thedarkhorse

It only makes sense if the intention is to microchip you!

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ebygum
ebygum
3 years ago

OK I know I’ve said it before but I am infuriated! I have family who work in care homes and don’t want the vaxx and feel really pressured. So how can someone work in a care home who has AIDS or Hepatitis or any other communicable disease, but be free to not have to disclose this, and have the backing of the law if they are sacked? (And no doubt the backing of the London elite who would be furious if their gay friends were in any way discriminated against!) But (ordinary working class) people who won’t have a vaxxx for a disease THEY DO NOT HAVE have to be made to conform or face the sack? Someone explain it rationally to me because I am livid!

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LMS2
LMS2
3 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

This is from a friend today:

“Been in hospital for the past 2 weeks with 5 blood clots .
1 in each kidney
1 in each adrenal gland , although one has already leaked
1 larger one in my lungs .

Not really a lot to say other than I am alive.

On steroids now for who knows how long and on blood thinners for at least 6 months . ”

That’s what they have to think of when they’re being pressured to have a vaccine.

Plus: it’s unlicensed, experimental, and being coerced into having a jab they don’t want and is unlicensed and experimental is possibly illegal.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Easy. Pfizer etc want the cash.
It’s completely rational.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

I absolutely agree. I think that TB is the closest analogy to covid rather than HIV or Hep since it is also spread via the respiratory system. TB has been in the rise in the UK as immigrant populations have brought it in and we don’t insist upon screening and treatment (or it may also be a drug resistant variety). You can’t vaccinate for it after the age of 16ish as it has no effect on the adult immune system. People are under no obligation to disclose they have it and continue to spread it around. And yet we apparently care whether they’ve had a covid vaccine or not?! Bonkers.

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LMS2
LMS2
3 years ago

Friend of mine, in her late forties, has been in hospital for the last two weeks after being vaccinated, and suffering from blood clots in her kidneys and in one lung. She’s probably lucky to be alive. She will have to be on steroids and blood thinners for six months.
I think she had covid last year, so should never have been given the jab anyway.

Speaking to one of my cousins, she knows of at least four people who’ve had the jab, one has been ill for over two months, two others have died: one died alone at home some time after the jab in late March, but they only found his body this weekend when friends tried to contact him as it was his birthday on Friday. The police were called and broke into his house to find his body. The other person died two days after the jab from a heart attack. His family were told it was a “coincidence.”

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

Ask her to contact Alex Berenson.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago

Those who know more about it are more likely to reject it; what a surprise. I suppose that many people watch the free advertising on certain media channels (paid for by the general public).

All concerned please note that there are legal steps being taken against coercion, such as: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-coerced-vaccination/

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Crystal Decanter
Crystal Decanter
3 years ago

They will eventually pin them to the floor and inject them under “mental health”
or camps
Fascists and Communists love camps

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Crlmc
Crlmc
3 years ago

Why would anyone accept these frankensteinian concoctions ..
Scroll down to No. 6 .. What the covid 19 vaccine Astrazenesa contains

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca/information-for-uk-recipients-on-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca

Phizer doen’t sound quite so bad .. but it is still synthetic frankensteinian stuff
..
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19/information-for-uk-recipients-on-pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine

These experimental injections must not be given to children

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neilhartley
neilhartley
3 years ago

The more you tell me to do something, the less likely I am of complying.

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