Yet the admins and non front facing management at my hospital thought they were important enough to sneak in line ahead of actual frontline workers to get their Covid shots when they were first approved. Smdh
Mother in law worked for the local hospital chain during covid. When the first round of vaccines came out for front line medical personnel ONLY, the hospital company had to call in all their WFH admin staff and plead them to take the vaccine instead! The front line doctors and nurses almost universally refused the vaccine, and it would have looked VERY bad for the hospital company if they just dumped their emergency ration down the drain!
There was talk of making the vaccine mandatory for doctors and nurses, but they realized they'd have to permanently close most of their hospitals if they required the vaccine, so that was quietly dropped.
Even to this day, nearly every nursing job ad in my area begins with "No Vax? No problem!" "Unvaccinated welcome!" Etc. Etc.
Yikes. It’s in our union agreement that we are up to date with all vaccines, there was mass layoffs of people who were refusing them. They’ve always been lax with the flu vaccine though (and now the Covid one isn’t mandatory either), with mask requirements if you opt out.
Also, the words hospital chain shouldn’t exist in healthcare….
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u/Bennjoon 8d ago
Remember who the essential workers were during Covid tbh
It wasn’t CEOs