Healthcare Workers Relieved As Vaccine Effort Is Underway

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Healthcare workers who have been getting the COVID-19 vaccinations are feeling a bit more relieved and not as stressed. That’s according to Beaumont Director of Infectious Disease Research Matthew Sims. Sims told Michigan News Network many workers who have been dealing with the virus for nine months see the vaccine as light at the end of the tunnel.

“The vaccines coming, and especially it going to the frontline healthcare workers first has really been, for a lot of people, a real stress reliever, a real reduction in anxiety, a ray of hope that this may end,” Sims said.

Sims says the spread of the virus won’t be stopped until 70 or 80% of people are vaccinated. That will take several months. The goal in Michigan is to vaccinate 70% of the population by the end of 2021.