COVID Vaccine Booster Take Up Extremely Low Among Care Workers: Report

Staff at care homes are turning away from COVID vaccines because ’they know they’re not at risk of hospitalisations and death,' claims an expert.

A resident receives a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca CCP virus vaccine at the Belong Wigan care home in Wigan, northwest England, on Jan. 21, 2021. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images

Between two to five per cent of staff in all care homes have taken a COVID-19 vaccine booster this year, according to official figures.

Despite more than 12,000 care homes having been visited by the NHS’s vaccine rollout programme, representing over 80 percent of all care homes to date, the number of care home workers that received a COVID booster remains extremely low.