(Joel B. Pollak) Hospitals in California are allowing employees with coronavirus to continue working as long as they do not have symptoms, because they are short of staff, after the state’s vaccine mandates resulted in hundreds of health care workers being suspended or fired.
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by Joel B. Pollak, January 10th, 2022
The San Francisco Chronicle reported:
The policy shift is prompted by the need to keep hospitals functioning during the current surge, the department said. Allowing infected health workers to continue their duties is needed “due to the critical staffing shortages currently being experienced across the health care continuum,” according to the health department’s letter, posted online Saturday, to acute care and psychiatric hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.
The loosened requirements apply only to health care workers who are asymptomatic, and they will need to wear N95 respirators rather than standard medical face masks. The department wants such workers to treat only patients who already have tested positive, the letter said, although it acknowledges that “this may not always be possible in settings such as the emergency department” where everyone’s infection status is not always known.
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Unions representing hospital staff voiced opposition to the new policy.
Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom, with the support of the unions, imposed vaccine mandates on health care workers in the state, boasting that California was the first state to have done so.
Because these vaccine mandates were imposed at the state level, they were not suspended by ongoing litigation against the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates, and hundreds of health care workers in California, a small percentage of the total, quit or were suspended or fired for refusing to be vaccinated.
California is in the midst of its worst coronavirus surge of the entire pandemic, thanks to the infectious omicron variant.
The state is so short-staffed that Gov. Newsom called out the National Guard last week to assist with coronavirus testing.
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Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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