New Hampshire is not developing or requiring “vaccine passports, documents that show you were vaccinated against COVID-19, but a proposed legislative measure would prohibit state government from requiring people to receive the vaccine.
The measure also would prohibit the state from entering into any contract or distributing taxpayer money to any business that would require a so-called passport, or would in any way discriminate against someone who refuses to receive the vaccine.
“Vaccine passports could discriminate against people flying, traveling, trying to get a job, or even something as simple as going to the supermarket, Rep. Tim Baxter, R-Seabrook, its sponsor, testified before the House Committee on Executive Departments and Administration on Tuesday.
By KATHY McCORMACKApril 27, 2021 GMT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) New Hampshire is not developing or requiring “vaccine passports,” documents that show you were vaccinated against COVID-19, but a proposed legislative measure would prohibit state government from requiring people to receive the vaccine or possess the passport.
The measure also would prohibit the state from entering into any contract or distributing taxpayer money to any business that would require the passport, or would in any way discriminate against someone who refuses to receive the vaccine.
“Vaccine passports could discriminate against people flying, traveling, trying to get a job, or even something as simple as going to the supermarket,” Rep. Tim Baxter, R-Seabrook, its sponsor, testified before the House Committee on Executive Departments and Administration on Tuesday.
Jim Kenyon: Hospitals are taking their shots, especially for their employees
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I don’t think anyone questions that doctors, nurses and other hospital workers involved in caring for patients deserve to be at the front of the line for COVID-19 vaccines.
But what about hospital employees who don’t come face-to-face with patients, work in hospital labs or mop operating room floors?
I’m talking about people in administration, marketing and fundraising to name just a few of the hospital jobs where going to work every day doesn’t significantly increase the risk of contracting the coronavirus more than any other office job.
After brutal months, health care workers see light
Dr. Dawn Barclay of Portsmouth Regional Hospital. Courtesy
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Before COVID-19 emerged last year, the 18-bed ICU at Portsmouth Regional Hospital was already a busy place, full of post-surgery patients and emergency admissions: people suffering from heart attacks, strokes and pneumonia.
There, Dr. Dawn Barclay and her staff put their decades of experience, and centuries of medical knowledge, to use every day to guide treatment.
But in this pandemic, there’s just no precedent to turn to.
“COVID is different,” Barclay said. “You see young healthy people really with little to no comorbidities who.come in with a thromboembolic complication. What that means is they have blood clots, and it takes their life. Bam. Gone.”