Posted on 07/26/2021 11:57:47 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Monday become the first federal agency to require its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated.
President Joe Biden confirmed the move in a brief statement to reporters Monday afternoon.
'Yes. Veteran Affairs is going to in fact require that all docs working in facilities are going to have to be vaccinated,' Biden said, following a report quoting his Veterans Affairs secretary regarding health care workers at the VA.
115,000 staffers will have two months to get inoculated against the coronavirus, and face being fired if they do not oblige.
President Biden confirmed that 'all docs' at the VA would be asked to get the shot ahead of his meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in the Oval Office.
Denis McDonough, the secretary of veterans affairs, told the New York Times: 'I am doing this because it’s the best way to keep our veterans safe, full stop.
He added that the mandates would apply to the employees who have the most contact with patients.
This includes doctors, dentists, nurses, physicians assistants and physical therapists at VA medical centers across the country.
The Biden administration has so far been unwilling to back federal vaccine mandates, and has insisted it is up to private companies.
The move came after White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the White House 'supports the steps of hospitals' to require staff to get vaccinated, saying it 'could be a guide for us on what to do with our own workforce here from the federal government.'
She noted there are 'certain powers' that the federal government has, and 'certain powers that the federal government does not have.'
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I found it interesting that my pastor announced he will be preaching on Revalation in a couple of weeks. He’s never done that before.
It sounds like your pastor finally woke up.
I show up for my shots and to see my rheumo doc. My primary as needed at a satellite location. Otherwise I don’t go.
Yep.
I would think they would have a HUGE class action lawsuit on their hands FORCING experimental drugs on people!!!
No doubt, but there is lots of legal precedent for vaccine mandates at hospitals, etc.
I’ve had some procedures at our local hospital. VA picks it up because the nearest VA hospital is 200 miles away.
Donald Trump did an outstanding job getting the VA on track and now it’s going to hell again.
So 21 USC 360 states that no experimental vaccine can be mandatory, yet, the federal government violates that law.
Seems we have a Rule of Law problem here.
I think it has been decided in court. The nurses in Texas lost.
Just ask the Democrat fleabaggers from Texas, all of whom were "vaccinated" who spread COVID-19 to Kamala Harris.
I know a bunch of Doc's....
Although I think my SIL took the shot...and he is a Doc.
The COVID tests couldn’t differentiate.
Good points!!
He’s Methodist....but has always been pretty “based”.
Please tinvite him to throw out most of the old doctrine and interpretation and just let the Holy Spirit guide him through what it means today. The other interpretation were designed by The Father to get us to today and the Great Signe in the Heavens on September 23-24, 2017.
I have an autoimmune condition that has been in remission my neurologist who is in research at UCLA med center told me under no circumstances to take this vaccine, he doesn’t have enough data to KNOW how this vaccine affects the immune system!! He has had myself AND all of his patients on a supplement regimen from day one he has not had ONE patient as of yet to contract this virus and these are folks with immune disorders!! He has been absolutely FURIOUS that meds that could absolutely suppress the virus have been BANNED from being prescribed!!!
I can fire people with violent records.
I can fire BLM and ATIFA people.
So when are they going to fire all Republicans?
This includes doctors, dentists, nurses, physicians assistants and physical therapists at VA medical centers across the country.
Question from this guy who has been labelled an "anti-vaxxer" who ignores the science because I questioned the safety of the vaccines:
If the science is settled, and safety of the vaccines have been fully established, then why are the most knowledgeable, best informed population in our country, the doctors, nurses, and PAs, not already vaccinated?
What is it that they know that they're not telling us?
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