New York's Bright Idea? Firing Doctors and Nurses

On the menu today: New York state's new mandate that hospitals, nursing homes, and long-term care facilities fire all unvaccinated workers is going into effect — leaving some hospitals suspending elective inpatient surgeries and declining transfers of intensive-care patients from other hospitals. As we watch a policy designed to alleviate pandemic-driven strain on hospitals and nursing homes suddenly exacerbate the problem, it seems fair to ask: Does this policy really get us where we want to go?

Does Firing New York Doctors and Nurses Really Help Us at This Moment?

I want everybody who is medically eligible to get vaccinated — although if someone has caught and fought off an infection from COVID-19, they can reasonably argue that their natural immunity from past infection will protect them from any severe reactions to reinfection for a while. (Getting vaccinated on top of natural immunity wouldn't hurt, though!)

But proposals to fire those who refuse to get vaccinated strike me as penny-wise and pound-foolish, particularly if the concern is the pandemic's strain on hospitals, nursing homes, and long-term-care ... READ MORE

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