How many employees have hospitals lost to vaccine mandates? Here are the numbers so far
Erie County Medical Center had roughly 400 hospital staff who were unvaccinated by New York's Sept. 27 deadline and placed on leave. These employees represent about 5% of its total workforce and have forced the hospital to halt elective inpatient surgeries and cut back on other services.Houston Methodist, the first to announce a vaccine mandate, said it had 153 resignations or terminations among its roughly 26,000-person workforce.
Indiana University Health had 125 of its 35,800 employees resign from their jobs due to the vaccine requirement. A spokesperson told Fierce Healthcare on Sept. 23 that many were part-time workers and that the departures were the equivalent of 61 full-time employees.
Lewis County Health System said it has seen 30 resignations as of Sept. 11 in the wake of announcing its vaccine mandate and as a result has been forced to pause maternal health services. At that time, 165 of the provider’s unvaccinated staff had not yet indicated whether they would comply or leave the single-hospital system. Lewis County Health System employs about 650 people and will see its mandate go into effect Sept. 27.
MaineHealth representative Caroline Cornish told Fierce Healthcare that 58 out of its team of 23,000 had resigned and cited the vaccination requirement among their reasons, as of Sept. 24.
Med Center Health said it had fired 180 employees from its workforce of roughly 3,800 who had not been vaccinated by Sept. 1. It also highlighted the hiring of 178 vaccinated employees who would begin within a week of the firings.
Medical University of South Carolina Health fired five employees who had not met its June 30 vaccination or exemption deadline. It employs more than 17,000 people.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration said that roughly 5,000 of the city's public hospital healthcare workers had not met Monday's vaccination deadline. Although not allowed to work, city officials are reportedly hoping that those workers—about 10% of the public hospital system's workforce—will choose to be vaccinated and return to their jobs later this week.
NewYork-Presbyterian had "fewer than 250" team members who did not comply with a Sept. 22 vaccination mandate and "no longer work" at the organization, according to a statement provided to Fierce Healthcare. The system said it has achieved more than 99% compliance among its 48,000 employees and affiliated doctors and will see no interruptions in care due to the mandate.
Northern Light Health representative Karen Cashman told Fierce Healthcare that, as of Sept. 24, 89 employees had left the system due to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. As of a Sept. 15 news conference, 91% of the system’s more than 12,000 employees had been vaccinated.
Northwell Health has reportedly fired about two dozen employees at the manager level or above that did not receive COVID-19 vaccines by an internal deadline. As of last week, it also had a few hundred staff out of its 77,000 that were not in compliance.
Novant Health has fired more than 175 employees who were not compliant with its COVID-19 vaccination requirement. The system said Sept. 21 that it had initially suspended about 375 of its more than 35,000 total employees due to vaccination noncompliance. Nearly 200 of those employees became compliant during the five-day suspension period and avoided termination.
Olean General Hospital said it had seen 11 resignations ahead of New York’s Sept. 27 deadline for a first dose. As of Sept. 14, more than 250 of its 840 employees had not been vaccinated.
RWJBarnabas Health announced back in July that it had fired six employees at the supervisor level who had not complied with a requirement for upper staff to be vaccinated by June 30. The remaining 2,979 supervisors were vaccinated or received exemptions.
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Also. I recall a study at education levels of Refusniks. The largest group were the most highly educated. The second largest group were the least formally educated.
The discussion was that second group might have been comprised of Blacks who'd distrusted government bearing needles in the wake of the Tuskegee Experiments.
I'd not be surprised if Delta has pushed Many locales/countries Very near to Herd Immunity.
Why?
Jabs were Widely give in Spring, Lockdowns were suspended & Summer Events/Travel provided Countless Spreader Events.
The Jabbed got infected & Spread Delta, but Untold cases went Unreported because the Symptoms were so Mild as to go Unnoticed.
Thus, MANY People have had Covid - and acquired Natural Immunity -
Without KNOWING It.
And YES - The Jabbed CAN Be "unwitting" Spreader Monkeys ...
How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says
Emerging data suggest that Delta could spread more readily than other coronavirus variants among people vaccinated against COVID-19.
They all have shortfalls in terms of effectiveness and duration. Even polio boosters are recommended when travelling to high risk areas despite three doses being 99%+ effective for a duration of at least 18 years.
The covid vaccines are doing exactly what they were supposed to do and should do: they provide a level of immunity which either prevents the disease, reduces symptoms to a less damaging, or fatal outcome and inhibits the spread due to decreased viral loads in breakthrough infections.
All vaccines, especially when under-resourcing means you can't vaccinate everyone at once, require vaccination strategies to quash outbreaks of disease. People refusing the vaccination in large numbers affects vaccination strategy, an essential part of controlling the spread.
The reason why there are so many covid breakthrough infections is because there is a worldwide pandemic and vaccination programme in progress. Even if every vaccine were 99% effective, 1% of the world's population is going to be a larger number than 1% of a relatively isolated epidemic outbreak. It's like one of those 'what weighs more, a ton of lead, or a ton of feathers' comprehension questions where you have to identify the salient parameters.
It's people like you who don't understand how vaccines/vaccine strategies work and spread false information who are creating the shortfall in vaccine uptake and effectiveness.
Data from COVID-19 tests in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore are showing that vaccinated people who become infected with Delta SARS-CoV-2 CAN CARRY AS MUCH VIRUS IN THEIR NOSE AS DO UNVACCINATED
“People who have a Delta virus and happen to have ‘breakthrough’ infections CAN CARRY THESE REALLY HIGH LEVELS OF VIRUS
They're Very EFFECTIVE Spreader Monkeys ...
There were (through early Aug 2021) per The Wall St. Journal, over 183,000 breakthrough cases in the US. They also stated that this number was probably low because some of the infected were asymptomatic and were not aware or reported. MA alone reported over 4300 breakthrough cases last week. Again, these could be under reported numbers. 35% of that state's new cases are "breakthrough" cases. This is not misinformation. These are some serious numbers. I know vaccines aren't 100% but at what point do you consider them ineffective in stopping the spread or contracting the virus. All it's doing right now is lessening the symptoms. The Delta variant appears to be slowing (in Chicago at the moment). Is this due to more vaccinations or is this bug just working itself out? Mandating or forcing people to get jabbed with something that isn't doing what it was meant to do i.e stopping the spread of the virus, is just wrong. Again, as I have stated earlier - I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I just try to have an open mind as to why the hesitancy. My bigger question is have there been or are there any studies that have been done with any long-term effects of the vaccine? Say 10 years from now. I only ask because I think of my granddaughters. Their mom and dad have very strong concerns and opinions on this. I can't even say what they have to say....
There were (through early Aug 2021) per The Wall St. Journal, over 183,000 breakthrough cases in the US. They also stated that this number was probably low because some of the infected were asymptomatic and were not aware or reported.
I've been makin' that rather Obvious Point much of the Summer.
F Y'all's I
The MLB Regular Season is Ending -
That was Over TWO THOUSAND Spreader Events for the Spreader Monkeys to gather & Share The Heavy Virus Loads in their.noses.
Plus Uncountable Summer Events ...
Yes - We can be Certain the REPORTED Cases have been LOW.
Because they don't KNOW or SHOW that they're infected -
They're Very EFFECTIVE Spreader Monkeys ...
Indeed, they state that they "do not know" what the role of the vaccinated in the spread of the virus.
It seems to me, that the people, who are most active (those actually getting vaccinated), are likely also
the ones who would take the initiative to wear a mask in dense public situations. Those who take the stance of refusing to get vaccinated, seem to have the tendency to refuse wearing a mask also.
Of course, there is variability within the population. But, it does seem to be a tendency.
Either way, it is clear that the majority of the hospitalized for, and dying of, Covid-19 are the unvaccinated. Thus, they are clearly spreading the virus. How much is spread by the vaccinated is not known, as is stated within that Nature article indicated by one of the authors.
“The bottom line is, this can happen — it can be true that vaccinated people can spread the virus. But we do not yet know what their relative role in overall community spread is,” says co-author Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
I personally know of a couple, who were vaccinated and the wife got covid-19 and the husband never did.
A second couple I know, who were unvaccinated and also refuse to wear masks in public. Sequentially, the husband got Covid-19 first and then the wife did 2 weeks later. This couple has small children. While I don't know if the family became "superspreaders" it seems likely, as their kids played with other kids. I remember him stubbornly adhering to the belief, that if you take vitamin D you won't get sick. Wrong !
A third couple, neighbors, he got Covid-19 before vaccines were available. She never did.
But, after he got sick, they both wore masks and socially distanced, even within the house, until he was better.