Vaccine holdouts are just 1.8% of NY’s largest health provider—now they’re fired

Vaccine holdouts are just 1.8% of NY’s largest health provider—now they’re fired

Unvaccinated workers say they'd rather quit than get shots—but few actually do.

Northwell Health, the largest health care provider in New York, announced Monday that it fired just a sliver of its staff for failing to comply with the state's COVID-19 vaccination mandate—and there will be no interruptions to patient care at the system's 23 hospitals and over 830 outpatient facilities.

In all, Northwell terminated only 1,400 of its more than 76,000-member workforce—that's roughly 1.8 percent.

"Northwell Health is proud to announce that our workforce—the largest in New York State—is 100 percent vaccinated," the company said in a statement. "This allows us to continue to provide exceptional care at all of our facilities without interruption and remain open and fully operational."

... Vaccine holdouts are just 1.8% of NY’s largest health provider—now they’re fired | Ars Technica​

Anyone surprised? People will make a lot of noise about being coerced into something, but will they put their money where their mouth is? Most won't, and that's pretty typical of people in general.

This should help shoot down the recent myth I've seen here, though, that firings are leading to significant staff shortages and reduced care capacity at hospitals. It shows that mandates work.

Should mandates be expanded even further? Probably. Tie them to things like Social Security and Medicare, and a lot of stubborn Republicans drag themselves kicking and screaming to the clinic and get a shot.

 

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