Idaho lieutenant governor keeps focus on vaccine mandates
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin says the Biden administration could be behind private health care businesses requiring their employees get COVID-19 vaccines.
McGeachin is acting governor with Gov. Brad Little out of the state.
She has sent what she calls a formal inquiry to the director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare concerning the requirement.
Primary Health Group, Saint Alphonsus Health System and St. Luke’s Health System announced the vaccine requirement earlier this month ahead of the busy cold and flu season and as coronavirus variants spread.
McGeachin works to uncover underlying incentives for health care providers who are imposing vaccine mandates on staff
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As Idaho See Increase In COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Doctors Urge Unvaccinated To Get The Jab
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Protest held in Meridian over COVID-19 vaccine requirement at local health systems
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MERIDIAN, Idaho â Demonstrators lined both sides of Eagle Road in Meridian outside of St. Luke s Monday, protesting a decision by three local health systems to require their employees to get their COVID-19 vaccine.
âI am not anti-vax and I don t think anybody here really is anti-vax. We are anti-forced and anti-being coerced into this,â said Sofia Boyarchuk, an Idaho nursing student.
The protest was organized by Health Freedom Idaho.
âI am not against the vaccine per se. I am against them forcing and mandating people who choose not to get it. Otherwise, they are threatening them with losing their jobs. That is what I am against. Their jobs or their freedoms, said Ramse Rogers, an Eagle resident. âIf we can t travel because we are not vaccinated or we can t go to a grocery store because we are not vaccinated, those are the types of t
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Mobile: A south Alabama hospital that vaccinated thousands of people against COVID-19 plans to send a team to do immunizations in Peru, which has been hit hard by the pandemic. USA Health said more than 20 volunteers will travel to the country’s Cusco region. CerviCusco, a nongovernmental agency in Peru, sought the assistance, the health system said in a statement. “Our plan is to travel to Peru in mid-August, establish processes and protocols for safe and efficient vaccine distribution in the region with a goal of providing 5,000 doses to the people of Peru,” said Natalie Fox, assistant administrator and chief nursing officer for USA Health Physicians Group. USA Health has provided more than 75,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines on the Gulf Coast, including at mass clinics where more than 2,200 people received injections dail