3 ms·

And yet the vaccination rate within the medical community is consistently higher than the general population (90% vs 70% in the UK). (Edit: although it is plau

And yet the vaccination rate within the medical community is consistently higher than the general population (90% vs 70% in the UK). (Edit: although it is plausible that this is due to some bias in the statistics - e.g. medical workers are expected to be working age adults (who are statistically more likely to be vaccinated anyway), and the general population is obviously a wider range) So does this suggest that those in the know are more likely to be vaccinated? Or that those in the know are taking a wait-and-see approach?

AnimalMuppet 5y ago
> So does this suggest that those in the know are more likely to be vaccinated? Or that those in the know are taking a wait-and-see approach? My... estimate? Gut feel? I do not have data... is that medical workers are at least no less likely than others of their same age group to get vaccinated. They may well be more likely to get vaccinated. But there are holdouts by the thousands, some of whom are willing to quit their high-paying jobs in order to avoid the vaccine. I don't think they're all just stubborn idiots. I think that at least many of them have done their own risk assessment, and decided that it wasn't worth it. On the other hand, others have gotten vaccinated, by the tens or hundreds of thousands, and they aren't all idiots or sheep, either. So... my read of the behavior of the people in the field is that the evidence leads toward the vaccines being worth it, but it's not as clear-cut as the media tells us. But I'm trying to use psychology to judge a matter of medical technology, and who knows if that approach is even halfway valid...