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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by Etheryte on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:36PM (#28753122)
Healthcare workers are at the highest risk of contracting disease and spreading it to others. There are numerous reported cases where unvaccinated healthcare workers have transmitted illness to patients who had been brought in with other ailments, in a number of cases with fatal outcomes. Firing a very small part of your workforce who carries a very large risk makes perfect sense.
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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by ipaddr on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:07PM (#28753507)
They should be protected and masked up. They are not the source of the highest risk.

Stats say you are most likely to catch it from your kids.

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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by mint2 on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:00PM (#28754340)
Immunocompromised and elderly hospital patients have some agency when it comes to galavanting with kids.

They don’t really have a choice about hospital visits and have no meaningful way of verifying vaccination status of who interacts with them at the hospital. It’s bad enough they have trouble finding out if all their providers are in network, but at least that issue only means debt not death.

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