More than 17% of doctors supported tightening bills on QR codes

More than a third of doctors (36.5%) are against bills on QR codes with restrictions for the unvaccinated, one in four (24.6%) fully supports the bill in its current form, follows from the results of a survey (available from RBC) conducted by the Handbook mobile application DOCTOR."

3,079 medical specialists from all regions of RUSSIA took part in a study on the attitude of physicians to the draft law on QR codes, mandatory vaccination and the vaccine campaign.

In total, more than 500 thousand medical workers from Russia are registered in the mobile application "Doctor's Handbook", which belongs to the company "Medical Information Solutions" and appeared in 2013. The creators explain that any person without a medical education can register in it, but he will not have access to the doctor's tools, participation in research, etc. The share of such participants is minimal and, according to the developers, does not affect the representativeness indicators.

Another 17% of those polled supported the bills, but with the proviso that the proposed restrictions would be expanded. On the contrary, 21.9% of doctors agree to support the project, but only if the proposed restrictions are reduced. The opinions of doctors about the introduction of mandatory vaccination were divided approximately equally: 49.7% support such a measure, 50.3% do not.

The majority of respondents (86.6%) agree that the information campaign to convince people to get vaccinated cannot be called successful.

RBC asked the Ministry of HEALTH and the federal operational headquarters to evaluate the results of the survey.