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New York's largest health care provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated workers
Axios ^ | 10/04/2021 | Ivana Saric

Posted on 10/04/2021 8:38:12 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

Northwell Health, New York's largest hospital system, announced Monday that it fired 1,400 workers for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

State of play: Northwell Health said it took a "rapid, aggressive approach" to reach 100% vaccination among its staff, the company said in a statement Monday.

Doing so would enable them to “provide exceptional care at all of our hospitals, without interruption and enable all our facilities to remain open and fully operational."

The company employees more than than 76,000 workers, the New York Times reports.

As of Monday, 87% of the state's 450,000 hospital workers have been vaccinated, according to the latest state data.

Other hospital systems around the country have faced similar dilemmas. Last week a North Carolina hospital system fired 175 unvaccinated workers for failing to comply with the state vaccine mandate.

What they're saying: "[H]aving a fully vaccinated workforce is an important measure in our duty to protect the health and safety of our staff, our patients and the communities we serve," Northwell Health's vice president of public relations Barbara Osborn said the statement.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chat; covid1984; fired; localnews; mandate; newyork; northwell; unvaccinated; vaccine; vaccinemandate
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To reach a 100% vaccinated society just marginalize, fire isolate and quarantine the unvaccinated in their homes forever.
1 posted on 10/04/2021 8:38:12 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
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To: American Number 181269513

From heros to unemployment.


2 posted on 10/04/2021 8:40:09 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: American Number 181269513

Haha they wish! Not me or mine or FL or TX


3 posted on 10/04/2021 8:41:19 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: American Number 181269513

Like setting your own corn crop on fire to get rid of a few insects, then starving to death come winter.


4 posted on 10/04/2021 8:43:30 PM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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To: American Number 181269513

If you wanted to kill off all the useless excess human kind, which group do you kill, the fat sheep who do not work, or the small percentage of hungry fighters, the ones who will think outside the box and work tirelessly to make a better life for themselves ?


5 posted on 10/04/2021 8:43:54 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: American Number 181269513

http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/the-strange-story-of-nuns-that-meowed-like-cats-and-7-other-cases-of-mass-hysteria


6 posted on 10/04/2021 8:47:49 PM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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To: American Number 181269513

The chaos and pandemonium that will ensue from these insane democrat vax mandates will lead to countless preventable deaths and other medical complications where there isn’t enough staff to man the hospitals.


7 posted on 10/04/2021 8:47:50 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: American Number 181269513

So in the middle of a horrendous pandemic that, according to the deity Fauci who’s authoritarian screeds cannot be questioned, will be far worse this winter....

They sack the people they need to help tide the pandemic - who were already all exposed to COVID for the past year and a half?

This has nothing to do with health or protection... this is totalitarian rule.


8 posted on 10/04/2021 8:49:49 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: American Number 181269513

Love to know the racial mix of the ones fired.


9 posted on 10/04/2021 8:50:29 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: American Number 181269513
They're doubling down on the political line that the only way out of this is through vaccination, and hoping the 1,400 is a small sacrifice to the greater good that they can absorb by paying substantial premiums for travel nurses and other short term stopgap solutions. I don't know if they will grind the opposition into dust, but if this was actually about providing as much access to healthcare as possible so lives could be saved, firing over a thousand people who were considered heros just last year would be unthinkable.

There's going to be another "Bonus Army"-style incident here. A lot of principled, educated, and responsible people out of work when their services were so recently claimed as critically important and still their skills remain valuable and needed. These aren't uneducated hayseeds who can't string two sentences together.

10 posted on 10/04/2021 8:54:09 PM PDT by jz638
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To: American Number 181269513

11 posted on 10/04/2021 9:03:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: American Number 181269513

This is far from over! Reduced staff will result in fewer beds available. But hospitals running out of beds will be blamed on the unvaccinated. The policies that reduced needed staff will not be mentioned.


12 posted on 10/04/2021 9:04:43 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: American Number 181269513

Jabbed contract and pass on the virus too.

So what’s the point?


13 posted on 10/04/2021 9:04:59 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: American Number 181269513

They've been exposed to Covid-19 for a 18 months, without a vaccine available, and not only survived but developed robust antibodies far more effective and long lasting than the vaccine ... and for that they get fired.

Could anything shout more clearly that this has absolutely nothing to do with healthcare and everything to do with control?

I think not. The five year survival rate for myocarditis is only like 66%. Keep your health, doctors and nurses, and you'll be hired back at premium rates shortly.


14 posted on 10/04/2021 9:05:59 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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They can no-longer complain about being short staffed or "at capacity." Your limitations are entirely of your own making.

If I had a loved one who died anywhere these fools serve - I'd sue them for everything they had. I'd claim my loved one died due to negligence and lack of care - predictably brought on by their corporate woke-a** decision.

15 posted on 10/04/2021 9:09:20 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: algore

Interesting analogy to sheep. Isn’t it desirable to have sheep fattened for the purpose of having better meat?

The left wants dependent people. Those “hungry fighters” who will resist their will are the ones who must be eliminated according to their doctrine.


16 posted on 10/04/2021 9:11:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: American Number 181269513

As of Monday, 87% of the state’s 450,000 hospital workers have been vaccinated, according to the latest state data.

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Hospitals can’t afford to lose 10% of their people.


17 posted on 10/04/2021 9:14:32 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: so_real

In the underworld known as plant services, there are some few willing to walk away from the mandate.

I think many of the walkers will be needed in less than a year.


18 posted on 10/04/2021 9:17:04 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: so_real

📌


19 posted on 10/04/2021 9:18:35 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: snarkytart

“87% of the state’s 450,000 hospital workers have been vaccinated”

So, nearly 50,000 highly educated and highly paid workers will soon leave New York. Andy Cuomo is drinking his Mai Tai on a beach somewhere thanking his stars he’s not governor anymore.


20 posted on 10/04/2021 9:20:40 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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