Termination of unvaccinated health care workers backfires as Biden pledges help amid COVID surge
More than 30,000 health care workers are out of jobs in New York alone due to vaccine mandates
President Biden is deploying military doctors and health care workers to bolster hospitals amid the spike in omicron variant cases. But in the last few months, thousands of health care workers across the nation have been terminated over refusing to comply with vaccine mandates, leaving health care providers in the lurch with staffing shortages while bracing for more patients
"We’re mobilizing an additional 1,000 military doctors and nurses and medics to help staff hospitals,"
Biden said Monday during the COVID-19 Response Team’s regular call with the National Governors Association
FEMA is deploying hundreds of ambulances and EMS crews to transport patients. We’ve already deployed emergency response teams in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New Mexico. We’re ready to provide more hospital beds as well."
In New York state, Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency over the
omicron variantand called in the National Guard to assist with nursing homes. She added that hospitals in the state at over
90% capacity could be ordered to stop elective procedures to focus on the surge. Biden said testing facilities will also be opened in the state.
Four months ago, disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a
vaccine mandate for health care workers, and those who did not comply faced termination.
Since then 31,858 health care workers at nursing homes, hospitals and other health providers have been terminated, furloughed or forced to resign because they would not comply with the mandate, according to New York health data provided to Fox News. The total number of inactive employees in the state due to the vaccine mandate sits at 37,192 as of Dec. 21, according to the data
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