Mandatory vaccination of National Health Service staff against COVID-19: more harm than good?

Despite the clear benefits of vaccination against COVID-19, there was significant unease relating to the government policy of mandatory vaccination of health and care staff in England and the potential inequities this may lead to. Healthcare staff, and in particular doctors, speaking out on this iss...

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Autores principales: Savic, Louise C., Savic, Sinisa, Pearse, Rupert M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8810516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35183348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2022.01.030
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description Despite the clear benefits of vaccination against COVID-19, there was significant unease relating to the government policy of mandatory vaccination of health and care staff in England and the potential inequities this may lead to. Healthcare staff, and in particular doctors, speaking out on this issue may have inadvertently provided a narrative, which undermined the objective of achieving widespread vaccination of populations against this serious disease. The recent reversal of this policy may not mark the end of this debate amongst health and social care staff.
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spelling pubmed-88105162022-02-03 Mandatory vaccination of National Health Service staff against COVID-19: more harm than good? Savic, Louise C. Savic, Sinisa Pearse, Rupert M. Br J Anaesth Editorial Despite the clear benefits of vaccination against COVID-19, there was significant unease relating to the government policy of mandatory vaccination of health and care staff in England and the potential inequities this may lead to. Healthcare staff, and in particular doctors, speaking out on this issue may have inadvertently provided a narrative, which undermined the objective of achieving widespread vaccination of populations against this serious disease. The recent reversal of this policy may not mark the end of this debate amongst health and social care staff. British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-04 2022-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8810516/ /pubmed/35183348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2022.01.030 Text en © 2022 British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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