New York may tap National Guard to replace unvaccinated healthcare workers

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering employing the National Guard and out-of-state medical workers to fill hospital staffing shortages with tens of thousands of workers possibly losing their jobs for not meeting a Monday deadline for mandated COVID-19 vaccination.

on Saturday, would allow her to declare a state of emergency to increase the supply of healthcare workers to include licensed professionals from other states and countries as well as retired nurses.

The plan comes amid a broader battle between state and federal government leaders pushing for vaccine mandates to help counter the highly infectious Delta variant of the novel coronavirus and workers who are against inoculation requirements, some objecting on religious grounds. "I need you to be my apostles. I need you to go out and talk about it and say, we owe this to each other," Hochul told congregants at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, according to an official transcript.

Healthcare workers who are fired for refusing to get vaccinated will not be eligible for unemployment insurance unless they are able to provide a valid doctor-approved request for medical accommodation, Hochul's office said.

 

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More people are going to die from losing health care workers than from covid due to the vaccine mandate good going America

Let them do it in the whole country. They will fell hoe much they need the unvaccinated. They’ll shit their pants

This is what leadership looks like! Finally a democrat with BALLS!

Puts nursing schools out of business.

Every single Dr, nurse and hospital staff member fired over this should hold a press conference and come forward with the truth about what they've seen with the side effects and the vaxed. Until they get the truth out this won't stop

They are going to fire them for not getting a therapeutic vax after just working over a year without it. WTF kinda sense does that make. The vax is not a cure like say a polio vax is it's a THERAPEUTIC.

If you are a nurse in Brooklyn I am looking to hire to work in the office position is Monday to Friday 9 am to 530 pm to do patient follow up via phone please DM me and I will send you the email Address

A shame the Guard is not called out to take control of NYC back from the criminals !

Therrco77 Is it just me, or does she have a Whitmer-esque look of evil about her?

👍👍👍👍that’s how you do it .. Take it or leave it!!

Leading by force…the sign of weak leadership (trying to cover things up/strike preemptively) and even worse times ahead.

disgusting and sad day for the people of New York

YESSIR 👍

I got a feeling we are not even close to peak 🤡🌎!

I’m confused is this the same lady?

Don’t do it workers! DONT. This is how we win.

Imagine saying the hospitals are overwhelmed on one hand and firing hospital staff on the other hand. The cognitive dissonance is off the charts.

Makes good sense. An elderly friend in a nursing home contracted Covid from a visiting nurse. He survived but it was scary. Just found out that a third outbreak occurred because unvaccinated asymptomatic visitors passed the virus to a patient. Good the patients are vaccinated.

That would make sense only were the vaccines a) proven to be safe mid-to-long term b) effective in at least stopping the dissemination/transfer Since, at this point in time, they're neither, this is pure politics & pinch of science. (Also I'm not an USA citizen & am vaxed)

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