Hospital systems in Massachusetts have started firing workers who refused to comply with coronavirus vaccine mandates.
New Bedford-based Southcoast Health fired 216 employees last week, a system spokesperson told The Herald News of Fall River.
Another 102 workers who had been placed on unpaid leave for missing a Nov. 15 vaccination deadline returned to work after showing proof of a first dose, spokesperson Katie Cox said. Those employees “will be tested regularly until they are fully vaccinated,” she said.
Another 151 Southcoast Health employees who have been granted religious or medical exemptions will also be tested regularly, she said.
Southcoast Health, with about 7,500 employees, operates Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River; St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford; Tobey Hospital in Wareham; and other facilities.
UMass Memorial Health fired more than 200 people who refused to get vaccinated for COVID-19, CEO and President Dr. Eric Dickson told The Telegram & Gazette.
“It was for the safety of other staff members and patients that we had to do this,” spokesperson Debora Spano said.
Worcester-based UMass Memorial, with about 15,000 employees, operates several hospitals in central Massachusetts.
(AP)
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Everyone needs to leave everyone alone when it comes to the vaccine if they want it it’s easy to get and everybody has heard the information about breakthrough cases and natural immunity all of it can be looked up. I just want to go back to the days when the unvaccinated was told they can get measles but I couldn’t because I got the vaccine now for some reason If I don’t get the vaccine and my neighbor does my neighbors get covid and it’s my fault ?. It makes no sense I never thought other people could take medicine for me or for mine to work . So it makes more sense to say everyone just needs to get out of other people’s medical business and mind their own business and leave it at that . I wouldn’t have to wear a life jacket
I wouldn’t have to wear a life jacket to get somebody else’s life jacket to work
To mindy136: You have no understanding of contagious disease.
huju, what a non-answer. This is exactly how contagious disease and vaccines work. You can get infected from someone else who has a contagious disease if you had not had it earlier and developed anti-bodies or the anti-bodies. And if you got a WORKING vaccine for that specific infectious disease it should’ve IMMUNIZED you from getting it. If it cannot IMMUNIZE you it’s technically not a vaccine, it is simply a way for many people to line their pockets. You can also cash in on naive people’s stupidity by buying stocks in these pharmaceutical companies, especially Pfizer…