Anxious about taking a new vaccine and scarred by a history of being mistreated, many frontline workers at hospitals and nursing homes are balking at getting inoculated against COVID-19. Anxious about their patients’ health and scarred by many thousands of deaths in the past year, hospitals and nursing homes are desperate to have their employees vaccinated. Those opposing forces have spawned an unusual situation: In addition to educating their workers about the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccines, a growing number of employers are dangling incentives like cash, extra time off and even Waffle House gift cards for those who get inoculated, while in at least a few cases saying they will fire those who refuse. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Officials at two large long-term care chains, Juniper Communities and Atria Senior Living, said they were requiring their workers, with limited exceptions, to take the vaccine if they wanted to keep their jobs. “F
“We are left behind in the dust no one sticks up for us,” she said. When Ms. Perry was bedridden for weeks with a bad case of Covid-19, she said, she had to use vacation days to cover some of her time off, and a portion of her sick leave was completely unpaid.
“I don’t want to hear what the government has to say about it we don’t trust them anyway,” she said.
Kevin Boyd, 54, a janitor at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, has been offered the vaccine by his hospital but is on the fence about taking it.
We asked how hard it is to get a vaccine in South Florida. You answered. And answered. Samantha J. Gross, The Miami Herald
Jan. 14 Billie Taylor has been trying to get a COVID-19 vaccine since appointments were made available to seniors under an executive order signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis about three weeks ago.
Taylor s husband, retired advertising executive and artist Michael Tesch, died of COVID-related complications in November, five months after his diagnosis. She desperately wants the vaccine, now that it s available, but her repeated attempts to log on through Miami-Dade County s portal and websites for local hospitals offering the vaccine have been fruitless.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is relying on Florida hospitals to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to health care workers, seniors and at-risk populations in the communities the hospitals serve.
It’s a task that some hospitals fear could be impossible given the state’s large senior population.
In a Tuesday phone call that included hospital officials and the secretaries of two state health-care agencies, HCA West Florida Division Chief Medical Officer Larry Feinman said it would take the HCA hospitals in Pinellas County months to vaccinate residents who are 65 and older against the virus that causes COVID-19. DeSantis issued an executive order last week that called for people 65 and older to be near the front of the line.