Monday's mandated COVID-19 vaccination deadline may force many workers from their jobs, but some, such as New York nurse Krista Michael, have remained defiant in the face of being forced from their jobs Angela Weiss / AFP/Getty Images Medical personnel move a deceased patient to a refrigerated truck serving as make shift morgues at Brooklyn Hospital Center on Apin New York City. The particularly contagious coronavirus Delta variant continues to be responsible for a surge in COVID cases and hospitalizations in the U.S., fuelling the controversial mandate for health care workers to be vaccinated.ĭata published by WorldoMeters show there have been 55,693 COVID deaths and almost 2.5 million cases of coronavirus in New York. New York State vaccination figures as of 22 September show 16 percent of hospital employees are not fully vaccinated. The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul last week announced health care workers fired for refusing to get vaccinated may not be eligible for unemployment insurance without providing a valid doctor-approved request for medical accommodation. Krista Michael, an unvaccinated nurse at Unity Hospital, Rochester, has vowed to continue tending to the sick until she is removed from her role Scott Heins/Getty Images Lenox Hill Hospital Chair of Emergency Medicine Yves Duroseau receives the COVID-19 vaccine from Doctor Michelle Chester at Long Island Jewish Medical Center on Decemin New Hyde Park on Long Island, New York. "Anyhow if there's one thing I want you to hear loud and clear it's that I am standing for my freedom of choice." "But it does not mean you cannot still contract the virus and it definitely does not mean you cannot transmit it to others around you. "You have a vaccine that may very well keep you out of the intensive care unit if you become sick, it may very well give you a lighter sentence. I have already survived Covid and have natural immunity, which is a giant factor that is being silenced. She said: "Our freedoms are being challenged and threatened. The nurse added she already possessed some "natural immunity as a survivor" after contacting coronavirus and also voiced her disappointment with how she feels the vaccine mandate has been managed. I live in free America where the right and privilege to choose what I do for myself needs to remain intact." She told Newsweek: "I have refused nothing, I have simply chosen not to take the vaccine for myself at this time. CDC Director Warns of Staffing 'Challenges' As NYS Mandates Vaccines.How 3D-Printed Vaccine Patches Could Be More Effective Than Needles.
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