{"id":224554,"date":"2021-01-07T07:04:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224554"},"modified":"2021-01-09T06:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T06:13:56","slug":"lapd-chief-says-60-of-police-dept-inclined-to-take-vaccine-cites-internal-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224554","title":{"rendered":"LAPD Chief Says 60% Of Police Dept Inclined To Take Vaccine, Cites Internal Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jeffrey Cawood \u2013 Daily Wire Jan 6, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>On Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said thousands of LAPD employees are reluctant to be inoculated with a coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-01-05\/only-60-percent-lapd-employees-want-covid-vaccine-internal-survey\">reports<\/a>\u00a0Moore\u2019s comments were based on \u201can informal survey\u201d that found \u201cjust 60% of respondents saying they would accept the shots when offered.\u201d The outlet also described the finding as the result of an \u201cunscientific internal poll\u201d and did not provide reasons for the skepticism<\/p>\n<p>Still, the article said there were 9,500 respondents, adding that there are approximately 13,000 officers and civilian employees in the department. Moore revealed that 20% said they need more information before committing to getting a shot, and another 20% said they would refuse the injection outright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vaccination is not just safe, but it\u2019s effective,\u201d Moore has concluded. \u201cIt\u2019s the way out of this pandemic, and we are asking all of our members on a voluntary basis to step into this and be vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore reportedly said he would take the vaccine when it is his turn, but not before the \u201crank-and-file who are out in the street every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve me,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI would do it in a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Only 60% of LAPD officers, employees willing to take COVID vaccine, internal survey shows <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nN5717eoUH\">https:\/\/t.co\/nN5717eoUH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Times (@latimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/latimes\/status\/1346585519417921536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Times provides more details from Tuesday\u2019s news conference:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Hundreds of LAPD employees have fallen ill, and several have died. Many are currently in isolation as the virus ravages the L.A. region. Three LAPD employees are hospitalized, one of them in grave condition, Moore said. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Moore said he was in touch with fire officials on Tuesday who offered to start vaccinating LAPD officers with whatever doses they had leftover from firefighters declining to take them. He said he was not told how many shots that might be but did not expect the doses to cover many officers. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Police officers, who are in the second tier of frontline workers and first responders who are eligible for vaccines under county protocols, will be prioritized within the department as well, Moore said, with officers and investigators who work in the street vaccinated first.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While Greater Los Angeles is widely considered the nation\u2019s pandemic epicenter, significant percentages of frontline workers in other professions have also declined to take the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lapd-chief-says-only-60-of-police-dept-inclined-to-take-vaccine-cites-internal-survey\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Greater Los Angeles is seen as the pandemic epicenter, significant numbers of frontline workers in other professions have also declined to take the vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224555,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224554\/revisions\/224555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}