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Date: September 27, 2021 01:24PM
...is the number of healthcare workers who have decided not to take the vaccine. NPR's "Morning Edition," has two stories about them this morning. Here is one:
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/23/1039228806/nurses-are-in-short-supply-employers-worry-vaccine-mandate-could-make-it-worseFrom the article:
"When Pam Goble first heard that President Biden was mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for health care workers, she had one thought: It's about time.
Goble is owner and CEO of Ability HomeCare, a pediatric home health care agency serving 900 children in San Antonio, Texas.
Of her 261 nurses and therapists, 56 have declined to get the vaccine.
"I am one of those people that really feels everybody should have their choice," says Goble. She did not impose her own vaccine mandate even as the delta
variant drove a spike in COVID-19 cases among her employees and the families they serve.
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A N.Y. Hospital Will Stop Delivering Babies As Workers Quit Over A Vaccine Mandate
Now she's concerned that her unvaccinated employees may refuse to comply with the federal mandate once it's implemented later this fall.
"We would have to let people go," she says. "I worry if our patients, who are medically fragile children, are going to get the care they need.""
When I heard this story, I almost immediately thought of some lines from the Donna Fargo country song, "You Can't Be A Beacon," from 1974; to wit:
"How can you ask a child to be honest and true
When he can only judge what's right by what he sees in you."
These healthcare workers, many in rural areas, are setting a bad example. Unfortunately, as noted in both stories, even though the percentages and numbers of healthcare workers that have not been vaccinated is a minority, right now our healthcare agencies need all hands on deck regardless of their vaccination status.