Only 15.3% of acute hospital workers and 10.5% of nursing home personnel received a COVID-19 vaccine during the 2023-24 season — down from 17.8% and 22.8% respectively, the CDC said in its Oct. 31 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Based on data from the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network, flu vaccine rates for the same healthcare worker groups were higher than COVID-19 vaccine rates — 80.7% for acute care hospital personnel and 45.4% for nursing home personnel.
However, the rates remained "persistently below the levels during the prepandemic period." For example, the flu vaccine rate for hospital workers in 2019-20 was 91%.
The CDC figures also showed that nearly 1 in 100 healthcare workers reported "a medical contraindication" to receiving either the COVID-19 (0.71%) or flu (0.89%) vaccine. The CDC figures did not provide information on the rate of vaccine side effects reported by healthcare workers.
The CDC said more research is needed "to identify effective strategies to improve vaccination at a time when health care personnel are susceptible to low vaccine confidence."
Such studies would also seek to improve "confidence about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines among health care personnel through, for example, providing additional education about the safety and effectiveness of vaccination to health care personnel."
Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), told The Defender the data didn't surprise her.
"It is no longer possible to deny safety signals and lack of effectiveness," Orient said. "A large percentage [of healthcare workers] have themselves had several episodes of COVID, had adverse reactions themselves, or know someone who did."
Pulmonologist Dr. Pierre Kory, founder of the Leading Edge Clinic and president emeritus and co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, said the CDC figures represent "a welcome trend" that he hopes will continue. He said:
"Regardless of the reasons for the decline, the data shows healthcare workers' tremendous erosion of trust in our regulatory agencies. Allowing this distrust to continue will further undermine the public's confidence in our healthcare agencies."
Kory noted the symbolism of healthcare workers turning their backs on the COVID-19 vaccine in particular. "If the vaccine is not for us, it is certainly not for them," Kory said.
Danielle Baker, a certified hospice and palliative care registered nurse injured by the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, agreed.
"With the current state of public healthcare, I am not surprised by the figures. In healthcare, there were positions where you agreed to some annual vaccinations upon hire, but the events of 2021 forever shook the core of even that practice," Baker said.
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, an ear, nose and throat specialist who was suspended by Houston Methodist Hospital for treating COVID-19 patients with ivermectin, said, "85% of healthcare workers are opting not to get the COVID shots because they know these shots are all risk and no benefit."
'Why should we trust you?'
Dr. Marty Makary, a public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University and author of "Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets it Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health," said the disparity between the CDC's COVID-19 vaccination recommendations and the actual coverage rate "is telling."
"It's also embarrassing for the CDC director [Dr. Rochelle Walensky], who has made pushing the new COVID booster a leading priority of her tenure," Makary said.
Orient said that doctors and other healthcare personnel who stood up to vaccine mandates and pressure from their employers to get vaccinated "are vindicated" by the CDC's data "and should be applauded."
"The message to the public should be obvious," Orient said. "Why should we trust you?"
Others, though, do not feel vindicated. Sarah Choujounian, co-founder of the Canadian Frontline Nurses, told The Defender that while "many have been awakened to the fact that vaccines are not safe," she and other nurses who opposed vaccine mandates are still facing professional repercussions.
"This news does not bring vindication as I, amongst many others, am still in court being dragged through a disciplinary hearing for standing up to the corruption and standing up for what is best for our communities," Choujounian said.
Dr. Danice Hertz, a retired gastroenterologist who was "horribly injured" after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, said lawmakers and policymakers need to open their eyes to the growing distrust of the COVID-19 vaccines by the medical community.
Hertz said:
"I personally have been injured by the Pfizer COVID vaccine. I believed what I was told by our agencies, that these vaccines are safe and effective. I learned the hard way that they were not telling the truth."Bowden said that doctors haven't done enough to speak out. She said:
"Why are physicians not speaking out? Our profession has veered off course, and physicians today are more concerned with protecting their jobs over upholding the Hippocratic oath.Orient said more doctors are starting to speak out, but "intense indoctrination, financial incentives and fear of ostracism and licensure are huge barriers to overcome."
"We have an abundant amount of data showing adverse events from these shots, but we don't have anyone in authority who will look at the data. Physicians need to get vocal and stand up to the government doctors who have taken over our healthcare system."
Kory said if the medical establishment and the government are to have any hope of reestablishing trust, they need to "recognize the truth about the COVID-19 vaccines. Until that happens, no message from them will be taken seriously, and the little public trust left in these institutions will eventually be gone."
Baker said he believes the public has reached a point where they no longer need to look to healthcare professionals for an answer when it comes to COVID-19 vaccination. He said:
"People pay attention. The mass media messages, governmental overstep, blanket mandates, lack of agency support for those adversely affected and unwillingness to see and hear responses to these things have caused an implosion.CDC data leave unanswered questions
"Enough of the general public has reached a consensus when it comes to this particular shot from the collective set of experiences over the past years."
The CDC data — self-reported by hospitals and nursing home facilities — also demonstrated regional differences in vaccine uptake. COVID-19 vaccine update was highest in the Pacific region and lowest in the Mountain and Southern states.
For the flu vaccine, uptake was highest in the Mountain region and lowest in the Pacific region for acute care hospital employees, while for nursing home personnel, uptake was highest in the Northeast and lowest in the South.
Figures for the current respiratory illness season are not yet available.
Pediatrician Dr. Michelle Perro told The Defender the data still leaves some unanswered questions.
"One criticism is that it did not delineate which types of healthcare employees were opting out of the flu and COVID vaccines. It appears that this data may not have been readily available," Perro said.
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Reran - oh yah - they Should be scared.... and deservedly so. (OFF with their Heads!)
The exact cause of this excess mortality is unclear, but it may be attributed to various factors, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other health issues.
That's Excess mortality! A 20% jump prior to injections.
I toad a so!
The data is being withheld for what I believe is to prepare a narrative. Its going to be bad. How bad, is the question.
These well paid medical personnel are daily witnesses to the exorbitant, money grubbing practices that are the major cause of personal bankruptcies. Until their own health was threatened (and they FINALLY put 2 and 2 together) did these $36/hour + shift differential nurses etc. speak out. They're either not too bright and/or low on integrity and may be better suited to performing choreographed TikTok videos.
The CDC catch phrase, removed from their site because of a lawsuit, is "All vaccines are safe and effective". This is neuro linguistic programming. All of the USA public, at least white collar, were sold on this propaganda. It still works. People believe that if they take the flu vaccine they are protected. It was only after I stopped taking the flu vaccine in 2014 that I stopped getting the flu.
We see that vaccine programming in education is actually the problem. Common sense is not so common in our current time.
This sounds like the political divide in the U.S.; lefties live on the coast while the 'based' population live inland.
Coincidence? LOL!!
Nicotine receptors are very cool. A look back at the various 'plagues' wiping out Europe through history reveals that the 'corpse collectors' (Bring out your dead!) all smoked a pipe because the saw the correlation between smoking and not getting sick.
However, the research does bear out that research scientists are able to create snake venoms in volume using mRNA or plasmid DNA technology. The research does bear out that most if not all symptoms of the bioweapon vax would be explained by snake venom(s). It is true that nicotine by itself is not addicting though the CDC promoted that idea.
Then there is another question. If the mRNA vax could produce "spike protein" in volume and that is what the immune system responds to, why couldn't they have used that as the mechanism to create a normal vaccine?
If we examine from the point of view that the vax is a bioweapon and how could they be sure it was effective, snake venom is a well researched toxin. Then the movie Bullet Train has a poisonous snake called the boomslang that creates bleeding from the eyes that matches ebola or marburg.
This covid-19 thing was off the charts global insanity, though. I still can't believe it really happened, and I'm now terrified at how dangerously stupid the general public revealed themselves to be. I had no idea it was this bad, but ever since Trump came down that golden escalator this population of American mush-minds has been continually illuminated, brighter and brighter, until I feel like I'm completely surrounded by lunatics.
Nothing makes me feel safe outside anymore. I'm not, and they prove it over and over, every time I think maybe it's just my skewed perspective. It just takes one trip to the grocery store, and I'm like, nope. They are actually nuts. My country is a full blown Orwellian dystopia, and it just keeps getting worse.
Yet now that word is spreading among the normies/vaxxed that they are a threat to present and future, human generations, how long before they start lying on their 'dating' apps about it?
I pray that you stay strong, healthy and unvaxxed!
Stats Canada Releases 2023 Deaths by Cause - December 4th, 2024Well the final data for 2023 has been released.
The Deaths by Cause was going to point Canada in one of two directions regarding the experimental injections:
1. The injections were deadly for ~2% of Canadians and ~5% had an injury considered serious.
OR
2. The Deaths reflect a much more significant problem with the experimental fluid, that couldn't be hidden any longer.
After reviewing 5 years of history regarding what people are dying from, I conclude is #1. The experimental fluid, is SAFE, for ~95% who took the injections in Canada.
Data for your perusal is at :
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As it is Canada, the most serious adverse effects (blood clots in lungs and major arteries) are quickly tackled by our free medical system which reduces the 'death' rate in the statistics.
What the published data does not show is the erosion of trust those injured Canadians have in the very institutions that both promote the death shot and try to clean up the mess afterwards.
thanks
He postulates the deaths were from neglect in early days and vaxx once it was used.
Denis’ charts are easier to review than the Canadian Govt sites, which like the CDC are very difficult to access and cross reference.
Denisrancourt.ca