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A severe CoVid infection is nearly 20 times more likely for unvaccinated than vaccinated police personnel and 5 times more likely for unvaccinated firefighters.  Once infected with CoVid, these first responders are sick for 2 to 3 weeks and miss up to 7 weeks of work.  These troubling statistics are just some of the conclusions of a collaborative study headed by public health researchers at the University of Miami.

 

The investigators dug down to understand the reasons why 41% of first responders remain unvaccinated.  Those resisting vaccination are more than 3 (3.2) times more likely to erroneously believe that CoVid vaccines are ineffective and more than 3.5 times (3.6) more likely to believe lies that CoVid vaccines are unsafe.  

 

These mistaken beliefs are propagated on mass and social media using pseudoscience and outright lies to make responsible CoVid management a wedge political issue.  Media liars would have you believe that CoVid vaccination and masking are undemocratic and unpatriotic.  Just the opposite is true.

 

We need police, firefighters, and health care personnel healthy and on the job to maintain a safe and orderly society.  Furthermore, we need our first responders to set an example and lead the fight against CoVid.  Now that vaccination, responsible masking, and necessary testing are required for all of us to return to our normal ways of living, we need our police, firefighters, and health care workers to uphold the public health rules, not defy them.

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.24.21266396v1.full.pdf+html

 

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