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8 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
THREAD: The nation’s biggest immunization rollout in history is facing pushback from an unlikely source: health care workers who witnessed COVID-19′s devastation firsthand but are refusing shots in surprising numbers.

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@AP Some hospital and nursing home administrators have dangled everything from vouchers for free breakfasts to a raffle for a car to straight cash payouts to get employees to roll up their sleeves.
“It’s far too low. It’s alarmingly low.” - Neil Pruitt, CEO of PruittHealth, a nursing home chain in the South where only 3 in 10 of workers offered the vaccine so far have agreed to take it.
The pushback comes amid the most lethal phase in the outbreak yet and it could hinder the government’s effort to vaccinate somewhere between 70% and 85% of the U.S. population to achieve “herd immunity."

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