Barriers to COVID-19 vaccinations and moral struggle among nurses in a Chinese community: A critical medical anthropology analysis

At the individual level, participants' lack of confidence and worries about vaccine safety emerged from the intertwined relationship of the negative information shared among their healthcare colleagues and non-healthcare workers through social media platforms at both the individual and micro-social levels. In addition, resistance was seen at the intermediate-social level, involving distrust of the profit-oriented nature of the capitalist operation, as well as cultural confidence in the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine against COVID-19 infection at the macro-social level. This study suggests that addressing the agents that can affect nurses' socialisation process at different social levels according to the critical medical anthropology framework is crucial for motivating nurses' vaccine acceptance.