Posted on 08/24/2021 8:19:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
there are still concerns about COVID-19 vaccines, even after the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine.
Health care workers protest vaccine mandate "When we're going to lose all of our nurses and then all of a sudden one of our three vaccines gets FDA approved so we don't lose nurses — nurses are still not going to get it regardless if it's FDA approved," said Krissy Licht, a Carlsbad nurse. "We are not going to do that."
Licht was one of the first people in the state to get vaccinated, but it's something she regrets now.
"Probably would not have gotten it," Licht said. "I had already gotten COVID, was one of the first people in New Mexico to get COVID, and I got it and I was fine. Then I got vaccinated, that's when I got really sick."
The protesters said mandating the vaccine will create a shortage of staff in rural hospitals. They worry the understaffed hospitals will have to shut their doors.
The governor's office said the shortage won't be from those who won't get vaccinated. The bigger issue is fighting burnout as COVID-19 cases skyrocket in New Mexico again.
Nora Meyers Sackett, the governor's press secretary, shared the following statement:
"Any hospital workers who claim to object to the vaccine need not resign – there are, within the state's public health order, three straightforward and simple means by which an individual may document their objection and thus not be required to be vaccinated."
There are medical, religious and disability exemptions for the vaccine.
I will stay away - from those who are vaccinated, as I don’t want to catch what they are spreading.
Findings: Between 11th–25th June 2021 (week 7–8 after dose 2), 69 healthcare workers were tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. 62 participated in the clinical study. 49 were (pre)symptomatic with one requiring oxygen supplementation. All recovered uneventfully. 23 complete-genome sequences were obtained. They all belonged to the Delta variant, and were phylogenetically distinct from the contemporary Delta variant sequences obtained from community transmission cases, suggestive of ongoing transmission between the workers. Viral loads of breakthrough Delta variant infection cases were 251 times higher than those of cases infected with old strains detected between March-April 2020. Time from diagnosis to PCR negative was 8–33 days (median: 21). Neutralizing antibody levels after vaccination and at diagnosis of the cases were lower than those in the matched uninfected controls. There was no correlation between vaccine-induced neutralizing antibody levels and viral loads or the development of symptoms.
Interpretation: Breakthrough Delta variant infections are associated with high viral loads, prolonged PCR positivity, and low levels of vaccine-induced neutralizing antibodies, explaining the transmission between the vaccinated people. Physical distancing measures remain critical to reduce SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant transmission.
The shortage is due to difficult process of getting immigrant visa’s for skilled workers. There is a huge backlog of such people waiting in line. But the administration has no problem allowing millions of illegals to enter.
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