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Forcing health and frontline social care staff to have the Covid-19 vaccine would be a “dangerous way to go”, an NHS hospital chief has said.
PA Media reports:
Prof David Loughton, chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS trust, which employs 10,500 people, said his organisation was having to have “one-to-one conversations” with staff about having the jab.
But he said it was “not unusual” for there to be vaccine reticence and followed a pattern already recognised within health bodies, from when the annual flu-jab season comes around.
Read the original article at The Guardian