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Followers, not leaders. Disappointing.
I’m glad they followed suit and only wish they’d done this MUCH sooner. No hospital staff should put patients – who already have health problems of their own – unnecessarily at risk.
Good for them. I’m shocked any hospital system doesn’t already have this requirement.
Time to go to court to test this invasion of privacy, not to mention a person’s civil rights
already been through the courts in Texas. The employees will lose.
Glad the vaccine doesn’t work well. Attorneys made this call……
@Clark: care to elaborate how these vaccines don’t work well?
People with the vaccine can still get Covid as well as carry and spread it. It makes no sense. So they want us to deal with the symptoms of Covid and the vaccine, great!!
To Clark, the vaccines are extremely effective at preventing hospitalizations and death. There are breakthrough cases with any vaccine, including influenza. As a physician I consider it to be an ethical imperative for all health care workers to be vaccinated. I applaud Ascension for taking this position.
Paul, I have a question for you. I understand that getting the vaccine will reduce the severity of illness and for that I’m grateful, but it doesn’t sound like it’s preventing transmission. I am assuming the reason for the mandates is to protect patients from getting COVID or is their some other reason? Does the vaccine help yo reduce transmission? It sounds like their saying it doesn’t so I’m confused by the reason for the mandates. They don’t really go into that in this article.
COVID-19 is a public-health issue due to its highly transmissible and conseqeuential nature. The vaccines are proven to lower the burden of death and hospitalization. Although individual beliefs will vary, Ascension made the right call by taking steps to protect its patients from dying. This decision about the common good, not an individual, is welcome. Congratulations to Ascension for exerting its courage, innovation, and kindness.
Another political move for legal reasons, not a data driven scientific decision.
Healthcare continues to be the new politics.
Fall in line, or else… yawn.
Having worked for Community Health Network for 25 years, I always thought Healthcare was about caring for people’s health.
I suppose going smoke free was political move? Maybe requiring employee flu shots is a political move?
Maybe you have it wrong and getting the COVID vaccine was what got politicized?
Dan M, if it’s about caring for health, will you give your salary back? Or it is really a huge “non-profit” hospital/government/insurance industrial complex? I’d rather Community Health mandate all employees have a BMI below a certain level.
I am in Vienna, Austria now. Here is how they are handling it: Vaccines are not required by the government are required to get into the country. Any restaurant is allowed to ask for your vax card. You are free to do want you want just not as free as someone who is vaccinated. In Vienna, masks are required on subways and trams but it is not nearly as bad as Munich. The state of Bavaria requires KN95 masks in all public spaces. This is a bit overkill for vaxed people but it is what they are doing. In regards to Ascension, not sure I want to be treated by a medical provider that is too dumb to take a vax that is 95% (pfizer) effective. I am as conservative they come and think freedom has responsibilities. I also do not want to give health “officials” more ammo to bankrupt anymore business. The mRNA tech that created the vaccine is a marvel of human ingenuity but we just need the wisdom to use the science to our full benefit.