Florida s largest public and private hospitals have no immediate plans to require employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and, in many cases, can t or won t say how many of their front-line staffers have been inoculated against the deadly virus.
The state s health center workers many of whom are subject to flu shot requirements commonly do not even have to disclose their vaccination status, even if they work closely with patients at high risk of complications, a USA TODAY Network-Florida review of public and private hospital policies has found.
As a result, patients using scores of Florida hospitals have no way of knowing whether doctors, nurses or anyone else they interact with, have been vaccinated. And even those hospitals that have estimates on vaccination rates commonly say they don t know the status of half of their employees.
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