203 Doctors Told Us What They Actually Think Of COVID Vaccines, And Everyone Should Hear Their Answers

Dr. Erin Abner, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Kentucky's College of Public Health, said the safety profile of COVID-19 vaccines "is excellent" and,“这个问题不是'接种疫苗，承担副作用的风险或保持未接种的风险并避免风险'；而是，'承担疫苗的风险，或承担着covid的风险。'”

Dr. Alison Abraham, a senior associate in the department of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, said:"The benefits vastly outweigh the harms on both a population and personal level."

One infectious disease expert in Columbus, Ohio, noted that she didn't initially think youth should be a high priority for vaccination against the coronavirus, but in the wake of the far more dangerous Delta variant,“我毫不犹豫地，所有年龄段的人都应该尽快接种疫苗。”

Dr. John Hokanson, a professor of epidemiology at University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus said he feels so strongly about the protection that vaccines provide that he "would not send (his children) to school without vaccinations" if they were still in grade school.

Dr. Kacey Ernst, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Arizona's College of Public Health, cited anAugust 12 American Academy of Pediatrics report和said: "378 children have died and nearing 18,000 have been hospitalized with COVID-19.I signed up (my children) the first day they were eligible."

Dr. Matthew Strickland, a professor of epidemiology and environmental health at University of Nevada, Reno's School of Public Health, said plainly:"I 100% support vaccination. The benefits greatly outweigh the potential harms."

“Such individuals are extremely rare, and I suspect the handful of them that exist are already known because prominence is their primary objective,"said one virologist in Spokane, Washington.

Indeed, in follow-up conversations, several responders had a variety of theories about why some individuals might abuse their platform and reputation that way, including bitterness from lack of recognition, religious beliefs clouding their judgment, the prospect of fame, compensation connected to promoting alternative products, political allegiances, and even personal vendettas.

But the experts emphasized that such individuals are exceptions to the rule, and that their actions put self-aggrandizement above the well-being of their fellow Americans.

"There is a risk associated with both getting vaccinated and not getting vaccinated," a pediatrician practicing in Atlanta, Georgia, acknowledged, "but where the risk of a severe negative reaction to the shots is one in a million, the risk of死亡from the virus is 1 in 100. I'm suspicious of anyone who doesn't seem to understand the difference."

Dr. Luisa Borrell, a social epidemiology professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy in New York, told me that any individuals misrepresenting such data "should know better," and that they "do a disservice to the public."

Dr. Thomas Lee, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, explained that if public health officials "do not acknowledge the clear benefits to the community that the COVID-19 vaccine brings, they are not being honest with the people whom they are meant to serve."

"They are undermining the health and national security of the United States," said Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Arizona. "The spread of misinformation is, in my opinion, as severe of a problem as the infection itself. In my view, their behavior is unethical."

犹他州州长经济机会办公室的计划经理April Young Bennett说：“如果您遵循大多数医疗保健专业人员的建议和大量证据，而不是具有独特异常意见的人的建议，那么您会更好。”