Nurses Warn of Staff Shortages Due to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Terminations, job walk-offs could be ‘devastating’ to communities

A nationwide shortage of nurses and health care workers may soon worsen as thousands of medical staff face losing their jobs by refusing to obey new COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

“It will be really terrible. We’re already understaffed,” said one veteran registered nurse who works at a health care facility north of Seattle.

She said she will lose her job after her employer’s Aug. 31 mandated vaccine goes into effect unless she complies with the requirement.

She estimates that as many as 400—20 percent—of the health center’s 2,500 employees refuse to take the vaccine. That number will likely shrink due to the financial hardship of job loss, she said, though “even losing 5 percent would be devastating to the community,” she told The Epoch Times.

The nurse, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said her only solution is if her employer grants her a religious exemption, which appears unlikely at this point.

“It looks like they’re going to reject my religious exemption. They need more information, but they’re not telling me what information they’re going to need. It puts me in a really tough situation,” she said. “I have two [elderly] parents who live with me. It would be extraordinarily disruptive to move them. It’s extremely scary trying to start again somewhere else.”

Stephanie Thorpe, a registered nurse in the UCHealth Colorado system, is also stuck between an employee rock and a medical hard place over her company’s pending vaccine mandate.

Thorpe said she, too, could lose her job if her application for a religious exemption is denied.

UCHealth reports more than 92 percent of 26,000 employees systemwide are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

That leaves a reluctant 8 percent who refuse the shots.

These medical professionals—Thorpe included—will have until Sept. 1 to comply with UCHealth’s Oct. 1 vaccine mandate, or else they will face disciplinary action

It is a cult!! I don’t get how so many people are brainwashed!!! What have they been threatened with or promised?? I will never go to another AdventHealth Dr and will die rather than utilize one of their hospitals- here in Florida it is my understanding that they have told their physicians they are not allowed to prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine- it is prohibited in their in-house protocols ( this can be found online) and I believe they have told their outpatient PCP and physician groups the same. In addition they keep running sick ads imploring ‘you’ to help ‘us’ and the nurses and doctors who are working so hard in hospitals by getting vaccinated. It’s disgusting manipulative propaganda. I compared this months numbers to same time last year—Covid cases are up but hospitalizations and deaths ARE NOT and anyone saying otherwise is flat out lying. And WTH DeSantis doesn’t have someone pull the numbers and release them to prove this is, like everything else right now, beyond MY sane and logical mind (although I must admit I am quickly losing my grip on sanity at this point)

…which is EXACTLY what our government wants.

- this “crisis” to get bigger and get worse for CITIZENS.

In the year and a half since this mess began, have we heard of ONE DC politician who has died from this DEADLY “disease”???

Nope. Not a ONE. THEY are all fine. Oh yeah… THEY get to run around socializing without masks too, remember that..

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