What Do the Unvaccinated Health Care Workers Know that I do Not? By Mrs Vera West
There is an interacting phenomena of unvaccinated health care workers, including doctors and nurses, along with unvaccinated workers within Big Pharma, although they may be weeded out soon. Many may simply accept sackings. So, suppose that I was a normie, and not an Alor.org writer, immersed in this Covid literature. What should I think about this? Well, health care workers know more than an old house wife. If they are hesitant, could they have good reason for this, having health care and medical knowledge? Sure, they are in the minority, but that is not the point: are they right of wrong is the question?
Thousands of unvaccinated NSW Health workers face being stood down or redeployed unless they get a jab by the end of the month, with one-in-eight yet to receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Health’s 140,000-strong workforce has been given the deadline to receive at least one jab, despite being able to access a vaccine since February when the first phases of the federal rollout began.
An email sent on Tuesday to Western Sydney Local Health District staff, covering hotspot hospitals such as Westmead and Blacktown, said almost 2000 district staff members had not received a single inoculation.
Eighty-eight per cent of all clinical staff in the state’s public health system has received the first dose and 81 per cent are fully vaccinated, as the September 30 deadline for health workers looms and the workforce faces its most difficult period in the pandemic.
Mandatory vaccination will take effect for school staff and early childhood educators on November 8, while hospitality workers will also require two jabs in time for the industry reopening in mid-October.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Wednesday said the state was in “uncharted territory” when it came to enforcing vaccinations and would need to seek legal advice.
“A dozen of the state’s top cardiologists were forced into isolation and multiple urgent heart procedures cancelled after two unvaccinated nurses worked while infectious with COVID-19 at a major Sydney hospital.
Critical procedures, including angiograms, pacemakers, stent and valve replacements, were called off at St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst last week after the nurses worked shifts across at least four cardiac wards.
One senior interventional cardiologist at St Vincent’s, who could not be named because they were not authorised to speak publicly about the issue, said cardiac procedures were brought to a standstill and wait times for operations such as pacemaker surgery had “blown out” with dozens of patients facing weeks-long delays.
“We normally run four cardiac cath labs every day but because of [the exposures] we are now down to running only one theatre, and only for half a day with reduced staff,” they said.
The hospital’s cardiac “cath labs” were closed for at least four days for deep cleaning, with about 30 doctors and nurses identified as close contacts, some plunged into two-week isolation, the doctor said.
One doctor at the hospital said there was concern about “a small group of nurses [at the hospital] who have not wanted to be vaccinated”.
“There is a view among some people that staff members still isolating shouldn’t come back to work until they have a first dose,” the cardiologist said.
“Patients have a right and an expectation that everything that can be done to reduce the risk of COVID-19 is being done.”
Hospitals are under uncertain legal footing until September 30 when the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers comes into effect.”
Here is the situation over in France:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58581682
“About 3,000 health workers in France have been suspended because they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19.
A new rule, which came into force on Wednesday, made vaccination mandatory for the country's 2.7 million health, care home and fire service staff.
But French Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Thursday that "most of the suspensions are only temporary".
Many are now agreeing to get jabbed because "they see that the vaccination mandate is a reality", he said.
The rule applies to all doctors, nurses, office staff and volunteers.
President Emmanuel Macron first gave workers notice of the rule change on 12 July, warning them that they needed to get at least one jab by 15 September or resign from their jobs.
"I am aware of what I am asking of you, and I know that you are ready for this commitment, this is part, in a way, of your sense of duty," he said at the time.
After the president's announcement, Doctolib, the website people use to book their jabs, crashed as so many people tried secure appointments.”
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