Signs that a high number of healthcare workers are unwilling to receive the coronavirus vaccine in Europe and the US are alarming politicians and offshore account investors and speculators who have vested interests in the Covid vaccine elated industries.

A poll released in mid-December caused shock in Germany, the country that has allegedly been at the forefront of the race for a vaccine profiteering with biotech company BioNTech. It revealed that half of surveyed nurses did not want to be vaccinated, along with a quarter of doctors.

Those qualms came back to the fore this week when the head of one German state said only a third of healthcare workers in his state were willing to get the jab.

A high degree of reluctance among medical staff has also been observed in other parts of Europe and in the US. In France, 76 per cent of senior care home staff said they did not want to get vaccinated, according to a poll of 2,000 such workers carried out last month.

In Austria, only half of the staff of care facilities in the region of Vorarlberg said they were willing to be inoculated, according to Austria’s public broadcaster.

The Italian Federation of Medical Professional Associations (FNOMCEO) said over 100 doctors was unwilling to receive the immunisation across the country.

In the US, a survey released last month by the Kaiser Family Foundation health think-tank found that 29 per cent of US healthcare workers would probably or definitely not get a vaccine, a slightly higher proportion than in the overall population (27 per cent).

Hearsay evidence from the first weeks of rollout in the US suggests staff at care homes is particularly hesitant to be vaccinated.

Mike DeWine, the governor of Ohio, said recently he was troubled by the low numbers of nursing home workers taking the vaccine, with around 60 per cent of nursing home staff having declined the shot. Asked about vaccine hesitancy among health workers on Wednesday, Germany’s health minister Jens Spahn said his ministry had only anecdotal data, with starkly divergent results. In some nursing homes, he said, only 20 per cent of medics received a jab, while in others it was as high as 80 per cent. But he said data showed regular flu vaccines among medics was “unfortunately very, very below average”. Source