Staffing Shortages Related to Vaccine Mandates & Pandemic Burnout

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October 26, 2021

On 10/19/21, Fox News alleged that healthcare workers were standing their ground and refusing the Covid injection even though millions of Americans have been vaccinated.

At Lewis County General Hospital in upstate New York, the number of nursing resignations received due to the statewide mandate severely worsened an an existing shortage forcing the hospital to stop delivering babies and close the maternity department. The Hospital CEO Gerald Cayer needs to explain to expectant mothers in Lewiston County why their upcoming healthcare needs are not essential after Cayer stated, “Essential health services are not at risk because of the mandate, the mandate ensures we will have a healthy workforce and we are not responsible for (causing COVID-19) transmission in or out of our facilities.”

In June 2021, approximately 1% of the total 26,000 employees at the Houston Methodist hospital system were fired or resigned over the first Covid Vaccine mandate costing nurses, physicians and healthcare worker jobs. Jennifer Bridges, a registered nurse in Houston was fired by Houston Methodist in June said she didn’t have confidence in the vaccine’s safety, has pledged to take the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

Jennifer offered to return to work as a registered nurse in early August after Governor Abbott requested 2,500 out-of-state healthcare workers to help hospitals across Texas during the Delta surge. The Feds were able to provide only 800 FEMA nurses.

In October, Houston Methodist employees made a good faith effort to return to their jobs at Houston Methodist after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning any entity from implementing vaccine mandates in the state.

Further confusion related to the Brandon Administration’s vaccine decision making was confirmed when Owen Shroyer posted an interview on Free World News with a nurse in mid-October in which she relays a conversation she had with the FEMA nurses that explained FEMA nursing staff were exempt from mandatory Covid vaccination while replacing nurses fired for refusing the vaccination.