Posted on 10/10/2021 1:14:06 AM PDT by Libloather
At least 34,000 home health workers in New York appear to have missed a deadline to get vaccinated under a new state mandate, according to preliminary state data, rendering them unable to work and deepening a shortage of home health aides.
At the same time, the vaccination rate among home health workers as the deadline arrived on Thursday - 86 percent - exceeded the expectations of some union and industry leaders, and suggested that thousands of workers decided to get their first shot at the last minute to stay employed. Some industry leaders had predicted that as few as 70 percent of workers were likely to meet the deadline.
Faced with a similar cutoff the previous week, hospital and nursing home staff in New York accepted the shot in greater numbers than home health aides, who typically make just above minimum wage. About 92 percent of hospital and nursing home workers had received at least one shot when their deadline arrived on Sept. 27.
Though home health workers have largely been out of the spotlight during the pandemic, New York State has at least 250,000 of them, with some estimates rising to over 500,000. The deadline applied to employees of the state’s 1,500 licensed home health agencies. Another 30 percent of home health aides statewide were hired directly by patients through a Medicaid program and were not subject to the mandate.
New York had never before released data on what percentage of home health aides have been vaccinated, making it impossible to draw comparisons with the new numbers, which were released Friday.
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#ing Rats
Remember when that might have been called an unintended consequence?
guess the ‘pandemic’ can’t be that bad if they can do without 34,000 healthcare workers. let the institutions suffer
They want to force people out of work and then make them reliant on the hand that feeds them - no buying or selling without the vax, and if it takes destroying the economy, so be it. They want to replace the economy with Communism redistribution of wealth anyway.
Wonder how many of the newly fired voted for Biden?
Article states....”thousands of workers decided to get their first shot at the last minute to stay employed”........
Well they held off as long as possible. This is “forced” ....Threatening the livelihood of ones means to support home and family. This administration is evil and tyrannic.
-PJ
Can’t work
Can’t buy (then)
Can’t sell (you just know it’s coming)
The “Pandemic” is so incredibly dangerous that healthcare workers are being terminated by the hundreds of thousands Nationwide to “stop COVID.” Such BS!!!
The Great Scamdemic and all of its associated lies continue, and only those who consume the rat-poison “Vaxx” can “stop COIVD.”
Satan’s children (“medical professionals” and “government agents”) again continue to terrorize and intimidate innocent people everywhere with their incessant lies and fraud.
That’s thousands of people now denied care.
I guess if you depend on a fired home health care worker you could call the Governor to help.
What a disaster! Made on purpose!
In order for this to happen and facilities to stay open, NYS regulators have to be turning a blind eye to every serious violation.
And not just at residential care facilities, BTW.
Rumor has it that violations in hospitals are deliberately being ignored as well.
Liberals are SO PSTUPID! HOW THE HELL is this going to HELP?
This isn’t stupidity.
It’s evil.
It's a year and a half into Fauci's Folly...and all of a sudden....it's mandates by the government. Companies being punished...for what?? People losing jbs...for what.
But alas...there was a photo yesterday of Pelosi with the Pope...NEITHER had a mask on.
They want to force people out of work and then make them reliant on the hand that feeds them - no buying or selling without the vax, and if it takes destroying the economy, so be it. They want to replace the economy with Communism redistribution of wealth anyway.
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I agree with you. And since you post the Q columns I believe, I’d be interested in your opinion as to why Trump is not saying a word about any of these evil intentions of the left concerning the vaccine?
And also on Hannity this past week Trump said that he had no idea why people didn’t want to take the vaccine. I almost think that one statement disqualifies him from being a serious candidate in the future. What do you think of that comment that he does not know why people don’t want the vaccine?
...rendering them unable to work and deepening a shortage of home health aides.
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Because the fascists in NY State enforced a dictate which created the situation. These authoritarian morons probably thought everyone would submit to their will. Now they’re staring at massive shortages of healthcare workers.
If there are 10 possible solutions to a problem, and one of them is fatal, it’s a guarantee Dems will always chose the fatal decision. They destroy everything they touch.
Probably his colossal ego. He pushed hard for the vaccines, rather than therapeutics.
This was never about health. Exactly one year ago there was no vax, yet these people had jobs, and kept them.
This year there is a vax and that fact along is being used to destroy peoples’ jobs, forcing them to choose between their jobs and their conscience.
We are under fascism now.
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