The VA’s move came on a day when nearly 60 leading medical and health care organizations issued a call for health care facilities to require their workers to get vaccinated.
Although vaccination among physicians is nearly universal — 96% according to an AMA survey — that’s not the case for many other people working at health care facilities. In nursing homes, only about 60% of staffers are vaccinated, compared with about 80% of residents, according to recent numbers from Medicare. And COVID-19 cases are rising.
“Unfortunately, many health care and long-term care personnel remain unvaccinated,” the groups said in a statement. “We stand with the growing number of experts and institutions that support the requirement for universal vaccination of health workers.” One complicating factor with the COVID-19 vaccines is that they have yet to win full approval from the Food and Drug Administration, and continue to be provided under emergency use authorization. The lack of a full approval has fed into hesitancy among some people.
Courts have ruled that employers can mandate vaccinations.
mnomura31 Isn't the federal government thinking of reducing the number of veterans on this opportunity?
Most vets who've gone overseas have received more shots in a couple of hours, than most civilians will receive in a lifetime. Get the f-ing shot, and enough w/ the conspiracy bull shit.
Good for them.
It shouldn’t be news, but here we are.
Veterans Affairs is a terrorist organization. Liberals and conservatives have this big brotherish behavior about them whereby they refer to the US terrorist military as an authority figure to get people to buy the policy or belief that they're selling. Both sides do this.
By looking at the math on those over 65+ vaccinated with at least one shot vs 65+ in hospital the math does not add up. You can't have 75% of a demographic vaccinated yet they contributed most of the deaths and then blame the unvaccinated. There is a data reporting issue or lies.
A lot of nurses will quit, and not enough staffs already, now who's gonna take care of the vets?
So the feds are gonna screw over the vets AGAIN!! Cos the people that work at Department of Veterans Affairs will quit my body my choice right
All lies.
Well done VA!!