It seems as if most of the hospital systems in the state are going to require employees to get the vaccine. I wonder how many will quit, especially those who have skill sets that will work in other areas? Especially when they’re already short of employees
Duke, UNC, other NC hospital systems requiring workers to be vaccinated
Major hospital systems across North Carolina, including Durham-based Duke University Health System and Chapel Hill-based UNC Health, announced Thursday that all staff and physicians must be vaccinated to continue working there.
The moves come on the heels of the North Carolina Healthcare Association’s decision backing mandatory vaccinations for health care workers. The association represents 130 hospitals and health systems statewide.
“Protecting patients, visitors and health care personnel from COVID-19 continues to be of paramount importance. Hospital and health system employee vaccination against COVID-19 is vital to safely care for patients by protecting them from infection and to mitigate the spread of the virus within health care facilities and among clinicians, patients and their families and friends,” the association said in a statement.
Duke Health and UNC Health have set a Sept. 21 deadline for staff to get fully vaccinated, and employees will have to show proof of vaccination to their supervisors. Anyone seeking a medical or religious exemption from getting the vaccine must request it by Sept. 7.
Anyone who doesn’t meet the deadline will get a warning and then, if they still aren’t vaccinated, will face termination, said Dr. Tom Owens, senior vice president of Duke Health and president of Duke University Hospital.
About a quarter of Duke Health’s more than 22,000 employees remain unvaccinated, a spokeswoman said.
The same types of liberals demanding this typically screech about “my body my choice.” A lot of people do not trust the vaccine for various reasons. I respect their choice. Mine was to get vaccinated early. Come the end of September, will we be reading stories about hospital and health systems being even more short of employees as people get fired/quit?
Wake County to target low vaccination neighborhoods with door-to-door canvassing
Wake County officials are making yet another push to increase the county’s vaccination rate.
Health officials are expanding the county’s vaccine outreach program by launching a door-to-door canvassing event.
Wake County’s eligible population has about a 70 percent vaccine rate–relatively high for the state and county. However, there are still areas in the county where the rate is much lower.
Canvassers will be out in those lower vaccination rate neighborhoods to pass out information and request forms. They will not be doing home vaccinations at this time.
Did anyone at ABC11 ask pertinent questions like “under what state law is it authorized to use private health data to find out who is and isn’t vaccinated, then give that information to individuals?” “Doesn’t this break HIPAA law?”
UNC immunologist says waiting for full FDA approval before getting COVID-19 vaccine is a bad excuse
“As you know, tens of millions of people have received this vaccine. There are enormous numbers of studies both in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Israel, and others, demonstrating this vaccine is highly effective and very safe,†said UNC School of Medicine immunologist David Weber.
Weber said the argument to wait until full FDA approval to get a shot isn’t a good excuse.
“Well, first of all, we know more about the safety and effectiveness of this vaccine than any other vaccine we knew about before it was FDA approved,†he said.
But, isn’t it their choice what to put in their body and when? I trust the vaccine, but, many don’t.
A group of Republican lawmakers led by freshmen Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado are demanding that the Biden administration explain the alleged unequal treatment of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, many of whom have never spent a night in jail, and those who have been incarcerated for months following the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
The precious cargo on the ship docked in San Diego Bay was strikingly small for a vessel built to drag oil rigs out to sea. Machines tethered to this hulking ship had plucked rocks the size of a child’s fist from the ocean floor thousands of miles into the Pacific.
The Biden administration is reportedly weighing whether to formally urge vaccinated Americans to once again mask up as the country experiences an increase in the number of COVID-19 delta variant cases.
In his prelude to “After Cooling,†Eric Dean Wilson tells us that he started his research not knowing “a tank of Freon from propane.†It’s a subtle chemistry joke, but a good one. By the end of the first 20 pages, however, the reader realizes beyond a doubt that the author is very aware of everything there is to know about what we call air-conditioning. After his deftly persuasive opening argument that cutting back on machine-made cooling is the most pressing environmental task of our generation, Wilson walks us through the science of chemical coolants in detail, both the chemistry and physics of these miracle molecules, and the horrifying discovery of the havoc they wreak within the thin protective layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. (big snip)
For months, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been reluctant to make coronavirus vaccinations mandatory for anyone, hoping that encouragement, convenience and persuasion would be enough.
US climate envoy John Kerry has called on China to increase the speed and depth of its efforts to cut carbon.
