Doctors, nurses & other health groups call for mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for health workers

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18. How long before it's fully approved? And what's standing in the way of that?

I'll be interested to see whether that stamp of approval actually changes any of these people's minds.

I react to basically the whole encyclopedia of drugs--it's called paradoxical reactions--so I'm really careful about what medicines I take, even though they're approved. That said, I've never had a wildly out-of-line reaction to a vaccine, though my child reacted to the DTP.

I'm surrounded by fragile people--cancer patients, diabetes, aged. There was no way I wasn't going to get the vaccine, though I admit to lying awake shaking in fear the night before my appointment.

I told the clinic people about my history, and they made me wait longer and checked me every 2 minutes. I signed up for the CDC service where they check on you every day (until you tell them not to) and never had anything to report after the first few days of fluish symptoms that many people had. I still receive check-in texts every month or so.

So as a person who legitimately looks at every pill and procedure and says, "I don't know what this is going to do me," I really want to know what these hesitant people think is likely or possible to happen to them that (1) outweighs the possible damage and (2) couldn't be fixed with current medical knowledge.