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Background: To control the COVID-19 pandemic, the only measure could be vaccination drive among country individuals. Pathetically, immunization refusal has been a common story in the media for well longer than 10 years. The study aimed to enlist the reasons for COVID-19 vaccine refusal among health workers of L3 level hospital and also to study the reasons for COVID-19 vaccination refusal by health care workers of L3 level hospital. To carry out this present study research question, the objectives were to prepare a detail list comprising of refusal reasons and also to find out correlations between refusal reasons and selected demographical variables like age/sex. Material(s) and Method(s): The present study consisted of 192 subjects from the Out-Patient Department at the Department of Medicine of Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, U.P. conducted between late December 2020 and March 2021. Informed written consent were obtained from all the study group subjects. A Questionnaire based research design was adopted for this study to assess the reasons for COVID -19 vaccination refusal by Health care workers of L3 level hospital. Result(s): The total study subjects involved in the present project were 192 with the mean age of the study population being 26.33 +/- 5.31 years. Majority of the hesitant respondents were females (56.8%). Out of all the 192 healthcare workers involved in the study, maximum (n=75) were from the allied courses followed by paramedical staff (n=61) and clinical doctors (n=56). Out of all the reasons enlisted for refusal of vaccination, sickness (n=51, 26.6%) was the single most dominant reason followed by drug allergy (n=23;12%), pregnancy (n=18;9.4%), food allergy (n=12;6.2%) and lactation (n=8;4.2%), with 79 respondents giving various other reasons for refusal like parents' denial (n=26), followed by presence of a medical condition (n=18), travel and scheduled appointments for personal/official tasks (n=4 each). A total of 27 respondents had failed to cite any specific reason for refusal. Reasons for refusal showed a significant variation for different age groups, sexes and professional categories (p<0.001). In effect, there was a statistically significant difference among different professional categories with respect to reasons for vaccine hesitancy (p=0.001). Conclusion(s): Improving intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 in India is influenced by the effectiveness of the vaccine. To retard the progress of the pandemic, it will require acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine along with targeted health communication strategies that effectively reach the populace. Copyright © 2022 Necati Ozpinar. All right reserved.
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A new virus was unearthed in 2019, and a pandemic struck the entire world. Several different companies and institutions collaborated to produce the vaccine. The definitive answer to the coronavirus pandemic has been outlined as implementing a COVID-19 vaccine capable of restricting the virus's spread. The Indian government recently scheduled and launched a large-scale vaccination campaign to combat the covid 19 vaccine. However, there has been some skepticism among citizens due to various reasons. COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic which was a global health crisis. We are now in the year 2021, but normalcy has yet to return, and many parts of the country remain in lockdown. The only way to stop the virus's spread was to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, which was recognized as the definitive response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous organizations concentrated on the vaccine's development. The most effective way to prevent pandemics is to vaccinate the typical population, including the current Coronavirus crisis. Several factors cause cynicism in the minds of the ordinary human being when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines. We'll look at different perspectives and sentiments about the Covid 19 vaccine amongst Indian citizens. © 2022 IEEE.
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In December 2019 there was a plague of a novel human coronavirus disease called coronavirus disease 2019 and abbreviated as COVID-19. It's caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease is being described as a world pandemic following its spread across over 199 nations and territories in several regions of the globe. The disease is characterized by respiratory distress and fever, with the likelihood of being transmitted via contact with droplets emanating from the cough and sneezing of an infected patient which readily contaminates animate and inanimate surfaces with a period of 2-14 days. On contact, approximately 80%, 5% and 14% of infected persons display mild symptoms, critical condition and develop severe conditions respectively, while the opposite 1 % are asymptomatic. Based on online data available as at March 30 th 2020, 15:49 GMT, over 746, 066 confirmed cases, 35,347 fatalities and 157,078 recovered cases have been ascertained. According to current global trends at the time of this study, the mortality in Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, South America, North America and Europe were 3.10%, 4.07%, 0.39%, 6.31%, 1.79% and 2.29% respectively. The continuous spread of the virus has also given way to the popularization of numerous misconceptions or myths hovering through the news and social media channels. Hence, this paper clarifies information about the virus with respect to various terms (its spread, intermediate host, creation/source, conditions for survival, treatment drugs/vaccines, persistence on inanimate surfaces, among others) and the need for research to be carried out on the myths surrounding the virus.