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virtuabhi | 4 years ago

More health workers are fed up with constant stream of unvaccinated patients in hospitals (also a big overlap between assholes and unvaccinated in USA where vaccines are available), so they would rather want everyone to be vaccinated. Ask your doctor friends and relatives.

What would your imaginary girl do when all ICU beds are occupied by the unvaccinated?

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/never-ending-nigh...

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TrispusAttucks|4 years ago

This is a different argument.

You're talking about the unvaccinated masses of patients.

The NY mandate was for nurses who worked throughout the pandemic.

We could debate the merits of mandated vaccination for the general public but this mandate is putting a squeeze on healthcare workers which will likely contribute to a worker shortage that will not be without it's own collateral damage.

virtuabhi|4 years ago

At Houston Methodist, where 150 employees left from a work force of about 26,000 people, the hospital said that there had been little lasting effect on its ability to hire people. And when Texas was hit with rising numbers of Covid cases over the summer, the hospital found that fewer of its workers were out sick.

“The mandate has not only protected our employees, but kept more of them at work during the pandemic,” a hospital spokeswoman said in an email.

ChristianaCare, a hospital group based in Wilmington, Del., said on Monday that it had fired 150 employees for not complying with its vaccine mandate. But the group emphasized that over the last month it had hired more than 200 employees, many of whom are more comfortable working where they knew their colleagues were vaccinated.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/health/us-hospital-worker...