As of Tuesday, nearly 97% of the health care system’s 3,810 employees were compliant with the vaccine mandate. The suspended employees have until October 8 to get vaccinated “or face separation,” said Arnold. “We are examining all our options to help ease the burden this may put on our staff, including pausing some services, consolidating our (operating rooms) and adjusting elective surgeries,” marketing and communications director Jamie Arnold said Wednesday. St Joseph’s Health in Syracuse, too, suspended 122 employees who were not vaccinated, and the hospital said that some services may be paused due to the worker shortage. At the system’s Terrace View Long-Term Care facility, over 20% of employees were unvaccinated and so suspended without pay. No health care facilities closed due to the mandate, but the Erie County Medical Center had to suspend elective inpatient procedures due to worker shortages. The mandates, though, have also caused staffing issues at several New York hospitals. “It’s tough that some people lose their jobs over this, but those numbers sort of speak for themselves.” For example, in the 2019-20 influenza season, US health care workers had a 94% vaccination rate in workplaces that mandated the flu shot, while workers had just a 70% vaccination rate in places that did not require it, according to a CDC study. That has been evident since before Covid-19 was even discovered, he said. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent. Taken together, the evidence so far indicates vaccine mandates work in pushing people to get vaccinated, said Dr. … And that means far more to me than the small minority of the fewer than 1% that chose to leave,” he said. “I know that there are United Airlines employees who got vaccinated because of this, who will be alive a year from now, who would not be had we not done this. He acknowledged the mandate may have made some employees mad, but said the tradeoff was worth it. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Scott Olson/Getty ImagesĪlmost all United employees complied with the vaccine mandate United has been vaccinating about 250 of their O'Hare employees at the clinic each day for the past several days.
We all respond to rules,” he added.ĬHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 09: United Airlines pilot Steve Lindland receives a COVID-19 vaccine from RN Sandra Manella at United's onsite clinic at O'Hare International Airport on Main Chicago, Illinois. “I think to some extent, this is just a human reality. “In the end, when it comes down to it you have to choose: Are you going to be able to keep that job, keep that paycheck, do the right thing, get vaccinated? The vast majority of people choose to get vaccinated,” he said. He encouraged private businesses to institute similar requirements and said the mandates had proven to be “strikingly effective” in pushing people to get vaccinated. New York City’s public health system similarly has 92% of health care workers vaccinated following the mandate, a jump from last week, when around 85% of such workers were vaccinated, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN. “This new information shows that holding firm on the vaccine mandate for health care workers is simply the right thing to do to protect our vulnerable family members and loved ones from COVID-19,” she said. Those numbers increased considerably over the last four weeks, Gov. Statewide, 92% of nursing home staff, 89% of adult care facilities staff, and 92% of hospital staff have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose. The tradeoff – a disrupted workplace in the short term in exchange for widespread protection against Covid – has been particularly evident in New York, which instituted a vaccine mandate for health care workers starting Monday. Mandates that require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have spurred workers to get vaccinated in recent weeks – yet some holdouts have been suspended or lost their jobs, and workplaces are scrambling to cover potential shortages.
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