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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by enchiridion on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:14PM (#30091967)
From what I’ve seen the current shortages are primarily due to lack of sufficient pay and firing nurses who don’t want to get vaccinated. Additionally it seems like current nurses are over qualified for covid care.

How long would it take to train someone from a nursing adjacent field to treat 95% of what they are likely to see when treating a covid patient? Is anyone even asking that question? If not, why not?

It seems like we’re willing to take drastic action when it comes to mandate public behavior, but not when it comes to reforming bureaucracies, processes, and regulations.

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by dpark on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:55PM (#30092523)
> firing nurses who don’t want to get vaccinated.

I would love to see stats on that. From what I can tell, the actual percentage of medical practitioners quitting due to vaccine mandates is very small. My family work in the medical field in a red state and the set of people actually quitting over the vaccine requirement (as opposed to making a lot of noise and then deciding unemployment is unattractive) is tiny, but this may not be representative.

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