I can understand the concern about how fast the vaccine has been developed, how few people it has been tested on, and how short a period of time those receiving the vaccine have been followed for potential side effects. We will each make an individual choice about whether to receive the vaccine. As I have stated before, I have followed the medical literature on the development and testing of the various vaccines (there is no one vaccine, but multiple candidates). I am prepared to take the risk, myself, when a solidly-researched vaccine is approved by the FDA and becomes available for seniors. I am even prepared to be made sick by it for a little while. That is my personal choice, based not on any fear of contracting the disease myself, but from my desire to do my part to help bring an end to the intense suffering of all of humanity due to excess deaths, widespread & devastating mourning, and economic consequences jn the form, for example, of a huge spike in worldwide hunger & starvation. Not to mention the emotional toll on all of us due to isolation and lack of contact with family & friends.
However, as a retired physician, I am appalled to see these other doctors calling COVID-19 "a hoax" and denying the existence of the global pandemic. The term "hoax" implies that there is some group of people that stands to benefit from promulgating disinformation on such a massive scale. In other words, a conspiracy. I just can't see the logic, let alone the feasibility, of such a widespread conspiracy. That's a patently ridiculous idea.
How many people need to die, how many hospitals & nursing homes need to be overwhelmed, how many health professionals need to be dropping from overwork & PTSD, for these doctors to be convinced? This is a very, very tiny minority of physicians worldwide who are spouting this nonsense. I did not see a single one of the doctors in that video admitting to being on the frontlines of dealing with these very ill patients. One of them is only board-certified in psychiatry!
Please don't let the COVID-deniers, no matter what their degrees, influence decisions that affect other human beings. If you choose to wait for more data about the vaccine, or refuse it altogether, that is your choice. But we DO need to all work together through the recommended public health measures to combat this deadly virus. There IS no hoax, no conspiracy of disinformation, about this brutal pandemic, It is REAL.