Posted on 09/26/2021 8:08:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With President Biden's federal vaccine mandate set to take effect on Monday, health-care systems around the country are suspending elective in-patient surgeries and refusing to accept ICU patients from other hospitals as they brace for potentially hundreds of firings of nurses and other critical staffers, potentially even doctors.
According to the NYT, the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo is planning to do all that and more, as it says it may soon fire about 400 employees who have chosen not to get the single job required by the edict (which was pushed through despite being blocked by a federal judge).
Similarly, officials at Northwell Health, the state's largest health-care provider, estimate that NWH might be forced to fire thousands of people who have refused to get vaccinated.
In an economy with more job openings than workers - 2.2MM more, to be exact - forcing workers to choose between employment and their health or religious compunctions simply isn't a smart idea.
Without even a hint of self-awareness, the governor apparently agrees: "What is looming for Monday is completely avoidable, and there’s no excuses,” Ms. Hochul said, pleading for those who have not done so to get vaccinated," Hochul said during a weekend press briefing.
But we digress.
The situation is less dire in NYC, but there will still be plenty of hospitals left with massive staffing holes after mass-firings.
The city's largest private hospital network, NewYork-Presbyterian, has more than 200 employees who may face termination because they haven't received at least one jab.
Of course, as we have pointed out in recent posts, health-care workers are only a fraction of the worker who will be impacted by shortages across the economy. In California, nurse shortages have reached crisis levels in California, airlines are seeing flights frequently cancelled due to worker shortages.
As of late September, 84% of NY's 450,000 hospital workers and 83% of nursing home workers - which number around 45,400 - remained unvaccinated.
Despite being directly threatened by their superiors, most say they're refusing the jab on religious or health grounds, or because they're allergic to certain ingredients.
In an effort to scare workers into compliance, NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has threatened to find "foreign workers" to staff the Empire state's hospitals and care homes (despite the fact that vaccination rates are much lower in most of the world outside the US).
She has also threatened to call in the National Guard or order a state of emergency in a plan unveiled over the weekend.
NY's teachers are also facing a mandate to either get vaccinated or kiss their jobs goodbye. Roughly 10,000 public school workers, that's compared to 75K teachers and tens of thousands of other employees from custodians to paraprofessioanls.
Circling back to hospitals and care homes, institutions like Northwell are being relatively parsimonious with their exemptions for religious and health reasons, But some are getting through .
NY's emergency order doesn't stipulate how exactly hospitals and nursing homes should enforce it, and there's a good chance that hospitals serving communities in greater need will be forced to make exceptions. Black and Hispanic New Yorkers have gotten the jab in far lower numbers than white new Yorkers. The NYT points out in its story that some hospitals in the Bronx see unvaccinated rates among doctors and nurses reaching into double-digit territory.
At St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, about 12 percent of the nearly 3,000 employees had not been vaccinated as of midday on Friday, the chief medical officer, Eric Appelbaum, said in an interview. The group includes roughly 3 important doctors, and plenty of badly eed studiws
Anecdotally hospitals are reporting a surge in vaccinations among hospital workers who haven't yet been vaccinated. But who knows what to believe. All we know is that we wouldn't want to be having an elective surgery or delivering a baby in NY right now.
The unvaccinated are going to be made out to be the criminals. Watch for them to be personally attacked.
I believe this to be intentinoal, to bring in foreign workers.
Don’t be shocked to find Hochel vetting 12,000 Haitians to do the work that the unvaxxed is not allowed to do.
Read later.
RE: I believe this to be intentinoal, to bring in foreign workers.
How long is this process of giving them visas going to take? what happens in the meantime?
Also, vaccinated foreign workers aren’t necessarily vaccinated with American recognized vaccines. The mRNA vaccines Pfizer and Moderna require special freezing infrastructures which most third world countries do not have.
Are they going to accept nurses from the Philippines who have been vaccinated with China and Russia’s vaccines?
Will they accept the Astra-Zeneca vaccine?
Has Governor Hochul really thought this through?
The globalists don’t care. Cause a crisis and fix it on their terms.
RE: Don’t be shocked to find Hochel vetting 12,000 Haitians to do the work that the unvaxxed is not allowed to do.
And how many of these Haitians have been vaccinated? And Oh, how many of these illegals are trained nurses, doctors and healthcare workers?
Yes, that is the plan.
Build Back Better.
Already starting: Henry Ford Health System to recruit 500 nurses from the Philippines to fill labor gaps
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3997299/posts
Since they are fleeing a third world hell hole, probably very few. But double standards never stood in the way of their agenda before.
RE: Since they are fleeing a third world hell hole, probably very few.
OK, are the numbers of these “very few” large enough to replace the thousands of trained nurses and doctors who will lose their jobs?
Ditto for Beaumont and Spectrum
The new Governor, even worse than the last Governor. This one is a Witch worse than Whitmer.
How hard is it to fake documents? Who’s going to check them?
No, not likely, but they will have many new illegals to sort through. It’s not as though they have rigid requirements after all.
Remember Obama Healthcare rollout for a photo op at the WH?
The prerequisites were, the ability to wear a white lab coat, and a stethoscope. Its not as though they set high standards of care, but rather the ability to tow the party line.
RE: How hard is it to fake documents? Who’s going to check them?
Well, two can play the game. Why can’t the unvaccinated here in New York fake their documents if there’s no one to check them?
Remember, New York is the state where they killed 95% of all people on respirators while purposely forcing young, COVID-19 infected people into nursing homes, rather than a hospital ship or keeping them at the hospital.
New York does the Devil’s work.
From memory, 30% of USA physicians are already foreign born.
I wonder how many people have died or suffered in their home countries because of the limitless greed of the American medical system?
I forgot to mention the most important thing...
Foreign medical doctors are automatically awarded a Green Card if they immigrate to the USA.
There is no quota.
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