Posted on 09/16/2021 10:48:59 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Medical professionals, who were hailed as heroes during the throes of the pandemic, are now resigning in droves over a dictate from the governor’s office in New York requiring all healthcare workers, including long-term care facility employees, to be vaccinated, lest they be fired.
As a consequence, the NY healthcare system — and its patients — are already feeling the strains, only compounding an established nurse shortage.
A hospital in upstate New York, for example, has had to stop delivering babies and other maternity services due to employees quitting in protest of the vaccine mandate.
The Democrat & Chronicle reported this week, “Six employees at the Lewis County Health System have resigned, and seven more are unwilling to get vaccinated, meaning Lewis County General Hospital will stop delivering babies for the time being, multiple news outlets reported.”
“We are unable to safely staff the service after Sept. 24,” said Lewis County Health System CEO Gerald Cayer at a news conference. “We have a challenge to work through with the vaccination mandate.”
Moreover, an urgent care facility in Farmington, NY, had to close down due to staff shortages over the vaccine mandate.
“The mandate that all New York healthcare workers be vaccinated is starting to have an impact on our region,” Finger Lakes Daily News reported Wednesday.
“Starting Sunday, UR Medicine Thompson Health is temporarily shutting down its urgent care in Farmington due to significant staffing challenges. The center will only operate as an outpatient clinic for high-risk patients being treated for COVID,” the report added. “Thompson Health says it is consolidating and deploying staff where needed.”
“I think the mandate is awful,” said 20-year Thompson Hospital RN Barbara Coleman. “Our healthcare system has always run on the premise that each person has autonomy in their own healthcare decisions. We had to respect their choices even if they were not choices that were in their best interest. Suddenly, this is not the case with this vaccine.”
Now-resigned Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) on August 16 announced that all healthcare workers in the state of New York, including staff at hospitals and long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, adult care facilities, and other congregate care settings, are required to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Specifically, they must have at least their first dose of the vaccine by September 27. Notably, the order forbids even religious exemptions.
As wait-times for patients explode and facilities close, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is standing by the vaccine dictate. Though the governor was warned last month by ten New York counties about the forthcoming staff shortages from the mandate.
Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston, Steuben, Wayne, Ontario, Yates, Seneca, and Schuyler counties wrote a letter to Hochul and state Commissioner of Health Dr. Howard Zucker begging for the mandate to be pulled back, outlining “grave concerns” about implications from the order.
“Anecdotally, we have heard from local hospital and nursing home partners that they may have to reduce their bed capacity by as much as one-third or more if the unvaccinated employees resign rather than receive the vaccine,” the letter said, according to D&C reporting.
Multiple reports indicate that an estimated 130,000 unvaccinated healthcare workers at hospitals and nursing homes will lose their jobs once the mandate takes effect.
Earlier this week, a federal judge halted Hochul’s order due to an “emergency” addition to the dictate barring even religious exemptions. The state has one week to respond.
Judge David Hurd issued the order giving the Hochul administration “until Sept. 22 to respond to the lawsuit in federal court in Utica,” ABC News reported. “If the state opposes the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary court order blocking the vaccine mandate, a Sept. 28 oral hearing will occur.”
“The same front line health care workers hailed as heroes by the media for treating COVID patients before vaccines were available, including the Plaintiffs herein, are now vilified by the same media as pariahs who must be excluded from society until they are vaccinated against their will,” the lawsuit underscored.
The vax mandate was designed, among other things, to create chaos in healthcare so that the democrats would be able to justify total government takeover.
Close it all down!
Governments , the fast way back to the Stone Age
Democrats bring problems on selves, blame Republicans. Wash, rinse, repeat.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait until Dementia Joe’s mandate kicks in. Every single employee of any health care provider that accepts Medicare and/or Medicaid will have to be vaccinated to continue to work. Otherwise, the gov’t will pull all Medicare/Caid payments. Even if you are a non-patient contact remote worker, you must be vaccinated. It’s absolute extortion and a complete betrayal of all health care workers.
The purebloods refuse to sully themselves.
They quit delivering babies because the babies refused to get vaccinated prior to coming into the hospital.
So you get government takeover or medicine, then what. You can’t force healthcare workers to work or stay working, let alone seek employment that they are already eschewing because of government mandates.
Does not make sense in this context.
Time to make HCQ and Ivermectin OTC drugs and pandemic over.
another angle on the de-pop plan
Never going to happen with the crew currently in charge.
We are careening toward a national tragedy of monumental proportions.
Venezuela will look like a political success story by comparison.
In the early days of Covid some of us speculated that doctors and nurses might get drafted....wonder if that is on the table...then they would forcibly jab them.
Welcome to the land of liberty!
My wife and daughter are remote care RN’s. They don’t even see patients. Just work from home. Doesn’t matter to these tyrants. Don’t tell me to sue in the kangaroo courts.
Here is a logical question simple enough (maybe) for a Dem to answer:
If you drastically lower the number of trained, experienced hospital and medical center staff by demanding they take two jabs or go home, then people who are really sick and have emergencies will be endangered.
Then isn’t that worse than someone opposing the government mandate?
Their possible reply: They may die but at least they didn’t die of Covid from not getting the jab.
Government Medicare money as tyranny tool....
In the second grade (long ago) my doctor was the first hard right winger I ever knew, and I till am influenced by his ideas today. God bless his soul.
On his desk was a sign “I am not a government doctor.”
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. It’s not like we’re dealing with the bubonic plague here.
they will stop at nothing to kill americans.
thats why they want to vax pregnant “child birthing people”
so the baby comes out vaxed. if both make it that far.
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