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Vaccines combatting coronavirus ‘should not be a politicized topic,’ doctor urges

Adriana Belmonte

·Senior Editor

Tue, November 16, 2021, 12:40 PM

 

 

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Anti-vaccination sentiment in the U.S. has taken off amid the increase in COVID-19 vaccine mandates across the country.

A majority of these individuals lean right on the political spectrum, despite health professionals pleading that getting vaccinated is a matter of public health rather than politics.

“The thing that is crazy, in my mind, is we are physicians,” Dr. Shikha Jain, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Illinois, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We aren’t politicians. This should not be a politicized topic, but so many people have made this so polarizing and politicized.”

While 58% of the country are fully vaccinated and 66.7% have received at least one dose, according to the latest CDC data, there is still a significant number of people who are unvaccinated. And a Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that three in 10 individuals would leave their jobs if vaccines became mandatory.

“A year and a half ago when the pandemic started, we were all praying for a miracle,” Jain said. “We were saying, 'What can we do to save lives and get out of this pandemic?' A year later, we found exactly what we needed to save lives and to prevent people from dying and getting sick. And now because it’s become so politicized, people aren’t wanting to get something that they were praying for a year ago.”

Vaccine refusal is 'not only hurting yourself'

Vaccine mandates have become more common in the workplace after the FDA granted full approval for the Pfizer (PFE) and Moderna (MRNA) vaccines.

But many workers have opposed these mandates — including frontline workers like firefighters, police officers, and even some health care professionals — and have taken to the streets to protest these rules.

“I would say that not only are lives at stake if people decide not to work, lives are also at stake if those firefighters don’t get vaccinated, if these front line workers don’t get vaccinated,” Jain said. “The thing I think is so important to remember is this vaccine isn’t just there to protect you. It’s very important to protect you, but it’s also there to protect all of those people you come into contact with.”

 

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