Willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine among critical care Non-medical Healthcare Workers and impact of a vaccine information session

The approbation of vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) raises the hope of a pandemic control. Vaccination of intensive care unit (ICU) healthcare workers (HCWs) is of first importance since this personnel is at risk of exposure, can endanger fragile patients, is essential for maintaining healthcare system capacity and their vaccination may set an example for the general population. However, vaccine hesitancy (VH), one of the 2019 top ten global health threats according to the World Health Organization, defined as delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccination services, does not spare HCWs [1]. We hypothesised that in the context of new generation platforms vaccines approbation and of misinformation sharing related to COVID-19 pandemic, with a previously identified risk of VH [2], non-medical HCWs (NM-HCWs) would show the same low vaccine acceptance rate that the general population (i.e., around 60% [3]) and that an information session would improve the willingness to be vaccinated. Our objectives were to evaluate ICU NM-HCWs willingness to be vaccinated with already approved COVID-19 vaccines and the impact of an information session on this attitude.