Most nurses are vaccinated – so why do people think health workers are vaccine hesitant?
by Melody Schreiber from on (#5PB64)
Many registered nurses see vaccination as their moral responsibility' and want everyone else to get theirs too
Charlaine was skeptical of the vaccines at first. She wondered how they were created so quickly, and she was wary of the long history of medical experimentation and disregard for Black people like her in the United States.
But then Charlaine, a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit, thought about the disparate health outcomes for people of color in the pandemic - and knew that she might not receive the same level of care as others if she got sick.
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