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Massive Nurse Shortage Hits Houston—Weeks After 150 Unvaccinated Nurses and Hospital Workers Fired
FEE.org ^ | 08/18/2021 | John Miltimore

Posted on 08/19/2021 9:24:03 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

Shepherd and her colleagues may be disposable in the eyes of hospital administrators, but they are perhaps not as easily replaced as she or Houston Methodist thought.

Two months after firing unvaccinated hospital staff, Houston Methodist is one of several area hospitals experiencing a severe shortage of medical personnel. Media reports say hospitals have “reached a breaking point” because of a flood of COVID-19 cases.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: covid; covid19; hospital; houston; lynnhughes; mandate; reaganjudge; sdtexas; texas; vaccine; vaccines
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"Unexpectedly"?

No. The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.

1 posted on 08/19/2021 9:24:03 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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2 posted on 08/19/2021 9:25:45 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Tench_Coxe

that’s biden levels of stupid right there.

what did they think was going to happen?


3 posted on 08/19/2021 9:27:31 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Can’t wait for some idiot judge to try to order people back to work AFTER they were fired.


4 posted on 08/19/2021 9:28:24 AM PDT by MercyFlush (The First Amendment Doesn't Care About Your Feelings)
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To: Tench_Coxe

18 months ago, these nurses were heroes. Dancing and twerking in viral videos.
Notice that no one had any problems with them not being vaccinated, until now.
Sorry, no sympathy here. They got used and spat out by the Left because they no longer fit their narrative anymore.


5 posted on 08/19/2021 9:30:04 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic: The Internet's 1st social media platform. Since 1996.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

They will come around in four weeks, and try to contact the fired nurses. If I were them, I’d ask for four-thousand dollar signing bonus, and a guaranteed contract with no Covid firings possible.


6 posted on 08/19/2021 9:30:24 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: cableguymn

You still seem to be assuming...


7 posted on 08/19/2021 9:31:48 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Tench_Coxe

Gee, the headline is actually accurate.

This is a shortage, NOT a scarcity.


8 posted on 08/19/2021 9:31:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Gee, didn’t see that coming.

I’m an RN in Florida. No way I’m getting these shots. They’ll have to fire me.


9 posted on 08/19/2021 9:32:43 AM PDT by Zeddicus
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

They expected to be eaten last.

Stupid of them.


10 posted on 08/19/2021 9:33:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: pepsionice

Seems like a reasonable request and I agree they will eventually have to quietly backtrack on this.


11 posted on 08/19/2021 9:34:16 AM PDT by rb22982 ( )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Nose. Face. Spite.


12 posted on 08/19/2021 9:34:54 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I was totally creeped out by the 7:00 p.m. daily hand clapping for the “front line heroes”. That was the first sign that COVID is a choreographed brainwashing operation.

But apparently, lots of people enjoy being brainwashed. It makes them feel like they’re part of something. I’ll bet 98% of the people who were doing the 7 pm clapping for the nurses last Spring were the first ones to run out and get the vax.


13 posted on 08/19/2021 9:39:07 AM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joacn Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: Zeddicus

don’t you find it interesting (pathetic, really) that the White House AND the CDC are not mandating the vaccine?

Telling as hell.....


14 posted on 08/19/2021 9:40:18 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: pepsionice

At a minimum.


15 posted on 08/19/2021 9:43:15 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Yup.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.


16 posted on 08/19/2021 9:46:50 AM PDT by katie didit
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To: Tench_Coxe

There are 100,000 nurses in Philippines who would be thrilled to work in Houston hospitals.


17 posted on 08/19/2021 9:49:58 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: Tench_Coxe
So I heard that in Washington State, King Inslee has decreed that health care workers fired for not getting the jab are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Talk about putting the squeeze on.

Mrs. Copaliscrossing works at a nursing home and she said the part that isn't getting talked about are all the "non-medical" support staff like cooks, janitors, security, etc at these medical facilities also being required to get the jab. They simply just say "peace out" and go get the same kind of job at a non-medical facility. Now what? What a cluster@#%^&*^%@
18 posted on 08/19/2021 9:50:48 AM PDT by copaliscrossing (The truth is always your friend.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Worth repeating daily

White Hut and CCPCDC not mandating vaccine on their employees.


19 posted on 08/19/2021 9:53:08 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Zeddicus
I'm an RRT in OK.

No way I'm taking the VAXX...I've been asked 3 times....Declined 3 times.

I was up in the grill of a 19 patient that ended up coding and dying....I was offered the Regeneron Monoclonal Antibodies....

I'm six days out since "exposure" I feel fine....I've had the 19 long time ago...never really sick. I've antibodies....

I ain't taking the VAXX

20 posted on 08/19/2021 9:58:36 AM PDT by Osage Orange (mMake)
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