As SARS-CoV-2 infections are increasing and some parts of the country are experiencing their highest rates of the pandemic, we face a medical shortage. In Texas, the supply of staffed hospital beds is shrinking, and some communities are out of ICU beds. Staffing shortages are becoming critical. Is this the time to fire doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals for refusing a COVID vaccine?
Many people feel sick after a COVID vaccination, and some of those people won’t be able to come to work. The Janssen vaccine isn’t fully effective for two weeks after the shot. It takes five weeks for Pfizer and six for Moderna. Meanwhile, hospitals are short on beds, and even shorter on staff. Which will save more lives—fully vaccinated healthcare workers or staffed hospital beds?
The healthcare community has managed COVID surges without vaccine before, and we can do it again. The universal vaccination of healthcare workers achieves no benefit that justifies the violation of individual liberty required to achieve this goal. You may disagree with me. We should have that debate.
But right now, those of us who work at hospitals have our hands full taking care of COVID patients. Can we talk about this later?
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Great Warroom appearance! So glad I found you. Always looking for another voice of reason amidst the hysteria most of our nation has been consumed by… Sadly. Thanks for your science-based content. Thank for standing for Freedom!!
As a physician I believe you have very valid concerns. As a hospital based physician I also see the terrible carnage from this virus. The delta variant has caused a recent upsurge of admissions and it is important to care for these and other lpatients so desperate for our time and energy. It for this reason I feel it’s so extremely important for all hospital personnel that have direct patient contact get one of the COVID vaccines is they Don have contraindications.
. The patients we care for deserve to be as safe as we medical workers can provide. Not taking one of the vaccines unfortunately puts that employee as well as the vulnerable patients they care for at risk.
So who is filling up the hospital beds in Texas? Vaccinated or unvaccinated?
Why do the hospitals refuse to treat them with meds? It should be criminal to have drugs that can treat covid and hospitals refuse to use them because they will stop funding them? Am I understanding that correctly?
Right, you never hear about the other treatments that are known to work.
Where are the numbers? Why won’t they release numbers? Who are filling these beds? Deaths? Why all the mandates? Because vaccines expire soon !!! And Pharmas will loose money !!!! … But they will make up the money with boosters..
Completely agree!
Thank you for speaking honestly about what is happening
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