As of early March, simply over half (52%) of frontline well being care employees say they’ve acquired no less than one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, leaving 48% who haven’t, a brand new KFF/The Washington Publish nationwide survey of well being care employees finds.
Most who work in hospitals (66%) and outpatient clinics (64%) say they’ve acquired a COVID-19 vaccine, in comparison with half who work in docs’ workplaces (52%) or in nursing properties or assisted care amenities (50%), and 1 / 4 (26%) of dwelling well being care employees. Equally, seven in ten (68%) of these liable for affected person prognosis and therapy like a physician or a nurse report receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, in comparison with about 4 in ten of those that carry out administrative duties (44%) or who help with affected person care comparable to bathing, consuming, cleansing, exercising, and housekeeping (37%).
The findings associated to vaccination intentions come from a brand new KFF/Publish partnership survey inspecting the experiences and attitudes of frontline well being care employees throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and seem in The Washington Publish and in a KFF report. Further findings targeted on the emotional, bodily and financial toll that the pandemic has taken on frontline well being care employees will seem in future tales and reviews.
Among the many preliminary findings:
- The unvaccinated group of frontline well being care employees consists of some who both have their vaccination scheduled (3%) or plan to get vaccinated however haven’t scheduled it but (15%). It additionally consists of 3 in 10 who’ve both not determined whether or not they’ll get vaccinated (12%) or say they don’t plan on receiving a COVID-19 vaccine (18%).
- A big majority of unvaccinated well being care employees who both haven’t determined if they’ll get vaccinated, or say they don’t plan to get vaccinated, say that worries about potential unwanted side effects (82%) and the novelty of the vaccine (81%) are main components of their resolution making. These are the highest issues throughout the totally different demographic teams of unvaccinated well being care employees together with Black well being care employees, Hispanic well being care employees, and White well being care employees.
- Amongst frontline well being employees, half of Black employees, 45% of employees with no school diploma, and 4 in ten Republican and Republican-leaning employees say they don’t seem to be assured the COVID-19 vaccines out there within the U.S. have been correctly examined for security and effectiveness. About 1 in 5 of every of those teams additionally say they’ll positively not obtain a COVID-19 vaccine.
- Entry to a COVID-19 vaccine from an employer is a key side of vaccination charges amongst frontline well being care employees. 6 in 10 well being care employees who should not self-employed say they have been both provided or acquired a COVID-19 vaccine from their employer (together with 84% of vaccinated well being care employees). Reflecting the general vaccination charges amongst frontline well being care employees, the share of employees who have been provided a COVID-19 vaccine from their employer was a lot decrease amongst these working in sufferers’ properties (34%).
The undertaking, the thirty fifth KFF/The Washington Publish partnership survey, consists of interviews with a nationally consultant pattern of 1,327 frontline well being care employees (direct contact with sufferers and their bodily fluids), representing hospitals, docs’ workplaces, outpatient clinics, nursing properties and assisted care amenities, and people working in dwelling well being care. The pattern consists of employees who work in lots of, and a number of, totally different elements of affected person care together with affected person prognosis and therapy, administrative duties, and/or helping with affected person care comparable to bathing, consuming, cleansing, exercising, and housekeeping. The survey additionally included a comparability survey permitting researchers to match the group of frontline healthcare employees to the overall inhabitants, that included 971 U.S. adults not working as frontline well being care employees. The margin of sampling error for the group of frontline well being care employees is 3 proportion factors, nationwide comparability pattern is 4 proportion factors. For outcomes primarily based on subgroups, the margin of sampling error could also be greater.