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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, because who doesn't want to go to the hospital for a non-covid issue and get infected there?[/quote]

Healthcare professionals worked for months before a vaccine was even available. [b] Patients did not catch Covid at the hospitals.[/b]  Why?  Because healthcare workers wore appropriate PPE.  PPE if effective.

The current Covid vaccine mandates are government overreach, especially for this particular shot.  I am happy to see more states challenging this nonsense.  [/quote]

Unfortunately, yes, we had people catch covid while in the hospital for non-covid related things. It is still happening.

And PPE, while effect, is never 100% because there's always a margin of user (wearer) error. Many doctors and nurses on the covid floors/wings caught covid.

One fact throughout all of this has remained the same: vaccinated individuals have better outcomes when they get covid than the unvaccinated.

As an MD, I don't care WHY you get vaccinated, only that you do. I don't even care if you get vaccinated in secret and continue loudly opposing the vaccine (I actually have several family members who have done this).

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As an MD, how do you feel about the new hospital policies that allow Covid positive doctors and nurses to go back to work?

My neighbor is an MD and his hospital is allowing this because staff is vaccinated.

The vaccine won’t prevent them from spreading Covid, but I guess it helps with staffing issues!  Yay for the vaccine mandate, I guess?[/quote]

The vaccine makes it less likely that folks will spread it. The hospital where I work is doing this carefully with strict protocols such as strict mask mandates and have found that employees who get covid get it from the community and not the hospital. Additionally, [b]you do want someone to be able to care for you do you[/b] not if you end up in the hospital? Most hospitals are being overrun and are short staffed. 
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Do you think it is helpful to fire healthcare workers during a pandemic?  When hospitals are already short-staffed?  Simply because they choose not to be vaccinated.

Clearly you do, but that makes no sense to me to fire qualified, hospital staff - many of whom risked their own lives and showed up to workin before vaccines were even available - for no good reason.  
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