Personally, I’m all for mandatory COVID vaccines for everyone who doesn’t have a real medical reason to not have one, with harsh and comprehensive penalties for the refusees. Perhaps it’s a good thing I’m not in charge, though.
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Yes, but there are certainly a lot of medical experts who were in favor of mandates for the primary vaccine series who are not in favor of mandates for the newest bivalent booster, at least at this time. Opinions will differ but, like I said, I’m with Dr. Paul Offit on this one.
And by exempting faculty the Harvard policy seems specifically designed to annoy both the pro and anti mandate folks.
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How could anyone have seen this coming?
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We’ve become well acquainted with the issues of melanin and pulse ox reading. How about melanin and no-touch thermometers? “Shocking revelations, we are deeply affected!”*
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Horrible.
Modern warfare? Cannon fodder is now Covid fodder.
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When Biden said “the pandemic is over,” I think he was right, but not in the way he meant. We are no longer treating it as abnormal. Covid killing scores of people daily is the new normal, and it seems a whole lot of folks are OK with that. We shall see what happens this winter, with flu coming raging back after a couple years of being a nonfactor, and covid most certainly still doing it’s thing. But I gotta say, as a medical professional, acceptin this situation as normal SUCKS.
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True.
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Who gets a ventilator? And what happens if a conservative makes that decision about the value of your life?
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Not the result I expected. I don’t think anyone would have thought that 'be a black woman ’ would be the route to better treatment.
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And of course being transgender is a death sentence in the US healthcare system.
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The same may be true now, he said. In 2020 and 2021, Guard members were heavily involved in a range of domestic emergencies, from natural disasters and civil unrest to the pandemic, including medical care, COVID-19 testing and vaccines.
“Today, we have a much lower overseas deployment tempo than we’ve been used to and almost all of the COVID support missions have been ramped down,” Baldwin said. “We join to make a difference by serving others and by being part of something bigger than ourselves. … There may be a perception among both our soldiers and the civilians we are trying to recruit that we are on the backside of all of that and it’s time to take advantage of the hot job market we have right now.”
While the shortfalls for 2022 may be small percentages, the Guard is facing increasing losses over the next year due to the U.S. military’s requirement that all troops get the COVID-19 vaccine. Currently about 9,000 Guard members are refusing to get the shot, and another 5,000 have sought religious, medical or administrative exemptions.
So far, no Guard members have been discharged for refusing the vaccine order. The National Guard is awaiting final instructions from the Army on how to proceed. Officials have said it’s not clear when they will get that guidance.
With more losses likely on the horizon, Guard leaders are looking for ways to entice service members to join or reenlist. Hokanson said a critical change would be to provide Guard members with healthcare coverage. Currently, he said, about 60,000 Guardsmen don’t have health insurance. And those who have insurance through their civilian employer have to go through a difficult process to move to the military’s TRICARE program when they are on active-duty status.
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