More and more hospitals and major health systems are requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine, citing rising caseloads fueled by the delta variant and stubbornly low vaccination rates in their communities and even within their workforce.
Many hospitals say their efforts to immunize their employees have stalled, in much the same way the nation’s overall vaccination rates are stuck under 60%, behind many European countries and Canada. While more than 96% of doctors say they are fully vaccinated, according to the American Medical Association, health care workers, particularly in rural areas, have proved more resistant even though thousands of workers have died from the virus and countless more became sick.
One recent estimate indicated that one in four hospital workers were not vaccinated by the end of May, with some facilities reporting that fewer than half of their employees had gotten the shots.
Clinical staff have been getting the vaccine. It’s the ancillary staff the majority of which are not educated and often people of color, superstitious immigrants or have bizarre religious objections that are not. Even nonprofit teaching Hospitals have quotas to meet and they have ramped up rapid testing for patients both elective and emergent surgeries , births, palliative care for both in and out patients and have protocols in place to treat even Covid positive patients. Hospitals are filthy places they often require booster vaccines for Measles , Mumps ,TB Rubella and annual FLU upon hire. Hospitals are not really altruistic empathic places they are factories its BIG business and they often have invested in their employees and want assurances.
“Thousands of workers have died from the virus”. I call B.S.!!!
Just more scare tactics from the looney liberals. They thought they could scare the whole country into getting their poison vaccine. When only the “I’ll do whatever the government tells me to” crowd fell for it they realized how little control they have. They’re too dumb to realize that people who refused to get the vaccine are NEVER going to get it, no matter how many fictional horror stories they can come up with.