Doctors Association Vaccine Survey Results
The Bermuda Medical Doctors Association [BMDA] announced the results of their survey of island physicians regarding Covid-19 vaccines.
“As the largest representative body of medical doctors in Bermuda, the role of the BMDA is to advocate on behalf of physicians and their patients,” a spokesperson said.
“The Covid-19 survey, completed in July, was open only to local physicians with identification verified by email address, however, the answers were strictly confidential and not attributable to any individual. 71 responses were received.”
BMDA President Dr. Ben Lau, says: “To ensure we are accurately representing the views and interests of local physicians, we recently undertook a confidential survey regarding Covid-19, which illustrated that an overwhelming majority of local doctors would recommend vaccination.
“The pandemic has divided communities globally but as physicians, our collective interest lies in the welfare of all people. We collaborate every day across practices and specialties to protect and care for individual and collective health.
“We believe that individual physicians should be free to express their opinions and experience and, while the vast majority of doctors encourage vaccination, our care does not discriminate. The Bermuda physician community will continue to work together to deliver high quality healthcare for everyone.”
Survey Results
- 95.77% of doctors [68] would recommend the Pfizer [or Moderna] mRNA Covid-19 vaccine for a healthy adult without contraindications; 4.23% [3] would not
- 90.14% of doctors [64] would recommend the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for a healthy adult over 40 without contraindications; 9.8% [7] would not
- 71.83% of doctors [51] would recommend the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for a healthy adult under 40 without contraindications; 28.17% [20] would not
- 90% of doctors [63] would recommend the Pfizer mRNA Covid-19 vaccine for a healthy child without contraindications between the ages of 12 and 15; 10% [7] would not [1 participant did not answer]
- As a rule, 97.18% of doctors [69] recommend vaccinations [not including Covid-19 vaccines] to combat and prevent disease, 2.82% [2] do not
- 91.43% of doctors [64] believe that Covid-19 vaccines contain the spread of the disease, 8.57% [6] do not; [1 participant did not answer]
Dr. Lau added: “As health professionals we respect one another, and quality of care can only be strengthened by sharing our varied approaches to treating patients through evidence-based practices.
“The last outbreak claimed over 20 Bermudian lives, some of the recovered are still experiencing ongoing symptoms and Covid-19 patients are once again being admitted to hospital and the intensive care unit. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to worsen in many countries, further fuelled by the Delta variant, we are united in our goal to provide the best outcomes for all our patients.”
“While the Covid-19 pandemic is a pressing issue, this survey is the first of many. Going forward, we intend to poll our members on an ongoing basis on a variety of topics and to provide further opportunities for physicians to express their opinions.”
You can find more information on the links below and also on our dedicated website BermudaCovid.com, which is the most comprehensive resource and historic record available of Bermuda’s handling of the pandemic.
- All: Our coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic here
- Bermuda Stats: Chart of testing stats here
- Vaccinations: Data covering vaccinations here
Who are the qualified doctors who does not recommend the vaccine ? Can we see who they are ?
Let see who they are ? They must be living in witchdeoctorstime….
I agree. Those doctors that don’t believe the vaccine helps A LOT to stop the spread of disease need to be kicked out of the BMDA because they clearly are spreading disinformation that results in people being harmed or dying from the covid disease. I say use this pandemic to weed out our crazy doctors who refuse to abide by medical science in the course of practicing medicine. Everyone that is sick in the hospital from covid are those who are not vaccinated. The numbers speak truth. And if you want to ignore the numbers and instead brainwash yourself by watching some idiot on youtube telling you not to get vaccinated, then stick to your creed and STAY HOME if you get sick from covid.
If antivaxxers don’t want to accept medical advice, if they know better, fine. But when they catch Covid and feel unwell they should stick to their guns, stay at home, don’t go to the hospital. If you know better than all the doctors, stay at home and don’t expect everyone to delay their hospital treatment because you suddenly want to talk to a doctor.
This is an unfortunate and ignorant comment.
What do we say to people who smoke, eat unhealthy, do not exercise etc etc. Should they also restrain from accessing medical services when they get sick?
Should people who generally lead healthy life styles (e.g. don’t smoke) pay a lesser insurance premium for health cover?
No, this is different. Antivaxxers are the ones saying they know better than all the doctors. They don’t believe the science and the healthcare people. Fine. If they know better than doctors, they should follow through with it when it really counts.
If you catch Covid, stay at home and let your ‘natural immunity’ take care of it.
Stay away from the hospital and all those doctors whose advice you don’t want. Leave those for the rest of us, all of us “gullible” people who took vaccines.
“Question’s” comment is a fair comment because those who smoke, eat unhealthy and/or do not exercise perfectly understand that what they are doing is not healthy (only to them), and in addition those people are not slamming the medical community about how wrong they are, nor are they spreading conspiracies the way that anti-vaxxers. Anti-vaxxers have NO respect for the medical community and they often berate those that suggest that vaccines work to contain the spread of disease. Therefore if you’re an anti-vaxxer stick to your creed and stay at home when your sick from covid because it’s laughable that when you get sick you go crying to the same medical community for help.
Don’t smoke. Simple . Not an ignorant comment. Where u looking in the mirror when you made it?
Exactly. Tell it like it is. They feel privileged. But those of us who took it should be applauded.
A Doctor can make all the recommendations they want but how useful can that be if they are unable to provide basic medical answers.
- If the vaccine is so highly recommended why do people have to sign a document leaving no one liable for any health issues? (I’ve never had to do that with a medication)
-Can these doctors confirm that a healthy person can get vaccinated and have no long term bad reaction?
-Can these Doctors confirm what the long term side effects are for someone taking any of these vaccines or no because it’s still too soon to say?
- Are these Doctors saying that they are 100% certain that a vaccinated person who tests positive can’t end up mutating another strain anyway? It’s nice that the vaccine may help with symptoms, for now, but it was supposed to be able to prevent transmissions, among other things, so how long until COVID mutates again?
- What can these Doctors tell me about the development of babies born to fully vaccinated parents? Has there been any studies throughout their development stages or not as of yet because it hasn’t been that long?
- Does FDA approval no longer mean anything now? I can just start supplying anything I want as long as the majority is for it?
It’s unfortunate that The public is forcing such a divide among themselves. How is it okay for anyone to judge another persons choice. If someone refuses to take the vaccine assume they have what they feel is a valid reason it’s not your concern unless of course these Doctors are also saying that my vaccination won’t work because the other person isn’t vaccinated (how does that work?). Either choice means a person will have to deal with any consequences that arise so how is it anyone’s business. Your allowed to express your opinions so why can’t others express their concerns without being bullied. My medical status has no effect on you.
Look at each of your questions and be real? Have you never been asked to sign a document when you’ve had a procedure done at the hospital? Do you know the side effects of everything that you put into your body….fruit, sugar,milk, ….no because there is no certainty in anything and everyone reacts differently to different things.
If you don’t want to take the vaccine fine…. Roll the dice… that is your prerogative. But if you are going to gamble look at the numbers of persons that have died to to Covid (I believe 2.5 million) versus The amount of people that have died from complications from all of the vaccines.(less than 5 I believe).
Nothing in life is guaranteed or 100%. But if you don’t want to take a chance on a vaccine…. just understand that the hospitals and cemeteries are full of people that were convinced they could beat this.
I was Not concerned for my own personal health because I am relatively healthy and fit. However I got the vaccine to protect the others around me and to be a good example for those around me.
But you do you and I just hope you don’t become a Darwin Award winner.
and hospitals and cemetaries will be full of people who have been vaccinated as they are infected and dying as well. check it out you will be surprised.
Will do let me guess. It’s on Facebook or some quacks made up news channel or website.
Why reply if you can’t answer not one question Doc…
Each question is 100% logical to ask when your introducing something foreign to your body. If you go to your Doctors office and just take everything your handed that’s your choice. You still get told of all the possible side effects on the label of everything you use long-term and short.
The fact that you take offense to someone asking anything speaks volumes about you. Like I said in my original post I’ve never been asked to sign anything with regard to accountability of symptoms from medication that the FDA has approved. An actual surgery at the hospital doesn’t even fall into the same category. As for side effects from other things like *food (not understanding how something so temporary could be on the same grounds as a lifetime medical drug) most people stop using things they are allergic to I don’t know how you un-use a vaccine LMAO.
Your resorting to looking at death statistics but how can they even be accurate if people who may have died from vaccine complications can’t report them due to that same document I asked about already. Furthermore death was not in my original question. I asked what long-term side-effects can result from taking the vaccine. For instance heart defects in young people or am I just supposed to ignore those things. How about you post the statistics of people’s possible side-effects Doc.
And as I said in my original post which does not seem to be understood “my medical status has no effect on you” If you are vaccinated you should trust it to protect you and not worry about my status. That’s like me taking my birth control and expecting it to prevent the next person from getting pregnant
You do you….Most of us will do for the rest of us.
Does that include following blindly like a lemming??
Real talk fam……preach family
This is an unfortunate and ignorant comment.
What do we say to people who smoke, eat unhealthy, do not exercise etc etc. Should they also restrain from accessing medical services when they get sick?
Should people who generally lead healthy life styles (e.g. don’t smoke) pay a lesser insurance premium for health cover?
Well, your “lifestyle choices”, if you want to phrase it like that, do have an impact on your ability to get insurance and at what rate.
With numbers you can present what ever story you wish. Please provide the total number of doctor in the organization, the total number of votes casted.
Appreciate the reply.
I very rarely look at comments, let alone reply to them, but being that there is a large degree of misinformation going on with this current stream of dialog, I feel that I need to clear some things up.
1. The surveys are anonymous to the organization, so there are no names attached to the answers, therefore, they would not be able to give the names to the paper even if asked.
2. I did not answer the survey, so I was not part of those 3 that you are referring to.
3. I don’t know any doctor who has said they were “against” the vaccine. The term anti-vaxer is a very loose term, and might need clarification as to not recommending any vaccine, versus recommending some but not all.
4. I personally do not automatically tell everyone to take any vaccine, without going over the medical indications, and the risk and benefits of taking that vaccine. That is part of the current recommendation from the pharmaceutical companies who are producing the EUA vaccines for COVID-19. If a patient does not hear, and understand both the risk and benefits, then the physician has not done their job and duty to the patient sitting in front of them.
5. I personally do not recommend the current vaccination to all children as I have not seen the risk/benefit ratio for that age population, and do not go by news reports (https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/05/covid-19-hospitalizations-among-kids-likely-overcounted.html). As it changes, my recommendation changes.
6. The more important thing, if anyone has heard me speak, is the autonomy of a patient to choose to take a treatment, or not to choose. The medical profession, the politicians , nor the media, should coerce, force, or trick a patient into dong something that could potentially harm them (or even help them). Doing it for the greater good has been used by many in the past to justify many medical acts of the past, hence why the Nuremburg code was established.
7. I am not sure if the term “quacks” are appropriate, given the fact that a group of doctors do not go along with another group. This occurs more often than the public realize, and would apply if you are saying the physicians are doing something fraudulent or acting in ignorance of medical procedures. In Bermuda we have physicians who have been trained in over 7 mainstream districts, and most have had to have at least 10years of schooling to achieve their medical qualifications.
8. I would expect anyone who is reading this, to want their physician to work on their behalf 1st, and not the states behalf. That is what happens in communist and socialist countries, Bermuda and it’s residents deserve better.
excellent and on point