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re: OLOL is givimg employees until 10/31 to be vaccinated or be fired.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:00 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:00 pm to fightin tigers
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Nah, not showing symptoms, come on in.
Yes. It is a stupid policy.
Wow
Yeah we didn’t do that
You could have no symptoms…you were out 10 days from date of positive test. If you had symptoms the 10 days usually started from the start of symptoms. 
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Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:01 pm to dewster
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:01 pm to LSUDAN1
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What a clown world we live in. Communitst rule has taken over.
This isn't even exclusive to healthcare. I worked at an inpatient psychiatric facility and was required to be up to date on all of my shots (a couple of boosters people typically don't get), had to get a HEP A vaccine booster since I was outside of the 20 year range, and your standard TB test (that's been anywhere I've worked with kids). We were also required to get an annual flu shot unless we showed we could not medically receive it.
ETA: And we were ALWAYS short on staff.
This post was edited on 8/3/21 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:01 pm to RB10
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You just posted that COVID positive staff are still working. So which is it? Are the shortages because of covid and they need the vaccine, or are they no shortages?
There are more factors than that. But you seem blinded by having an argument over the vaccine.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:02 pm to OysterPoBoy
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On one hand you tell us how crazy it is and there are no beds and on the other hand you are ready to fire nurses and doctors?
Honk
honk
This is what happens when you give an emotional female the reigns and then question her a-thor-i-tie
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:02 pm to hubertcumberdale
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There are currently more COVID hospitalizations in Louisiana than there have ever been since the pandemic started last year
That's an alarming statistic. But are they really running out of capacity?
That is probably the biggest metric that should be driving public policy. Not positivity rates that so much of the media seems to be harping on.
The lack of capacity to deal with Covid patients + everything else that goes through those hospitals is a major problem. Even in the height of the pandemic, my local hospitals never used all of those tents that they setup. They repurposed a maternity wing and shuffled some room assignments, but they made it work. Was it worse in Louisiana?
This post was edited on 8/3/21 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:03 pm to dewster
No & that can be easily viewed on the LDH site
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:03 pm to fightin tigers
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Not at all. Unvaccinated people are more likely to get infected than vaccinated. So if your entire staff is vaccinated you have less risk.
Simple risk management.
But, we've been told the vaccines won't stop you from getting it. We are seeing more and more vaccinated people get it, particularly with Delta. The language the CDC is using is continuing to change in regards to the risks of vaccinated people to the point that they have stated not only can they get it, but they can also spread it.
When you are already short-handed to the point that people are dying, mandating your entire staff take the vaccine that doesn't stop them from getting it or spreading it, and doesn't alleviate the downtime resulting from a positive, doesn't seem like a great strategy.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:03 pm to High C
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Really not unusual for a healthcare provider to require their employees to get the vaccine.
Its also not unusual to have a full staff and people applying every day.
We live in unusual times, and anyone turning away qualified help for politics or emotion is a fool.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:04 pm to fightin tigers
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There are more factors than that. But you seem blinded by having an argument over the vaccine.
The only thing I’m blinded by is OLOL threatening to fire employees a day after putting out what was basically a help wanted add because of staff shortages.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:04 pm to dewster
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That's an alarming statistic. But are they really running out of capacity?
Judging by what the hospitals are doing to stay staffed it appears they are telling the truth this time about staffing.
Last year staffing shortages were not treated this was.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:05 pm to CatfishJohn
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Vaccines are commonly required to work in hospitals and have been for a very, very long time.
Have "emergency use" and not 100% cleared vaccines?
I bet not.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:06 pm to LSUDAN1
I wonder how short staffed they’ll be in Nov
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:07 pm to fightin tigers
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Judging by what the hospitals are doing to stay staffed it appears they are telling the truth this time about staffing.
You mean what they’re doing like threatening to fire employees?
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:07 pm to RB10
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The only thing I’m blinded by is OLOL threatening to fire employees a day after putting out what was basically a help wanted add because of staff shortages.
If you want to look at it another way, they believe everyone getting the vaccine unloads their demand. Less chance of contracting covid means fewer people carrying to transmit and those that do have breakthrough will not have as bad of symptoms. Absolutely all the data backs this up, so they believe it.
Others, like yourself, don't believe it so seeing their point of view is going to be hard.
They see the way out is to have their people be part of the solution and not the problem.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:07 pm to fightin tigers
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Judging by what the hospitals are doing to stay staffed it appears they are telling the truth this time about staffing.
Last year staffing shortages were not treated this was.
Based on what I've read, you are correct. I hope you are wrong, but I don't think you are.
And this new rule is likely the result of their careful evaluation of the risk of losing personnel who don't want to get the vaccine vs the risk of losing large amounts of critical staff because they are quarantined.
Which probably means that they are having issues with staffers getting sick already. THAT is a major community health risk IMO.
This post was edited on 8/3/21 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:08 pm to RB10
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You mean what they’re doing like threatening to fire employees?
Most will quit by then if they want to say vaccine free. Not sure what excuse they will have for not taking the vaccine at that point, but no doubt there will be one.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:08 pm to fightin tigers
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If you want to look at it another way, they believe everyone getting the vaccine unloads their demand. Less chance of contracting covid means fewer people carrying to transmit and those that do have breakthrough will not have as bad of symptoms. Absolutely all the data backs this up, so they believe it.
Others, like yourself, don't believe it so seeing their point of view is going to be hard.
They see the way out is to have their people be part of the solution and not the problem.
All of this would make sense if they hadn’t been clamoring for more employees yesterday.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:09 pm to dewster
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Based on what I've read, you are correct. I hope you are wrong, but I don't think you are.
And this new rule is likely the result of their careful evaluation of the risk of losing personnel who don't want to get the vaccine vs the risk of losing large amounts of critical staff because they are quarantined.
Which probably means that they are having issues with staffers getting sick.
Just given what I've read, it seems far more likely a vaccinated person can have COVID and be asymptomatic than an unvaccinated person with the new strain.
Unless your company forces weekly testing, asymptomatic vaccinated folks aren't getting tested. Which means they stay in their rotation.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:09 pm to fightin tigers
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Most will quit by then if they want to say vaccine free. Not sure what excuse they will have for not taking the vaccine at that point, but no doubt there will be one.
That should be great for the staff shortages.
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