Vax Americana

As compassion fatigue inches up and public sympathy for unvaccinated patients plunges, we find out that five of Tampa Bay’s major hospital chains have no vaccine mandate. Thousands of their employees remain unvaccinated. If anyone should know the benefit—and flat-out necessity—of COVID vaccination, it’s these health-care officials and their employees. It may meet the approval of Gov. Regene(Ron) DeSantis, but it’s hypocritical, unethical, dumb and bordering on malpractice for hospital officials to call for the public to get vaccinated—but not mandate it for its own people who have to treat the unvaccinated infected by the delta variant. It makes it much more challenging to get to herd immunity when those who should know better can’t hear the call for accountability, common sense and public safety.

Some hospitals, it’s been noted, are worried about employees quitting over mandates. Seemingly not a problem for Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital that has mandated vaccinations for its 3,000 employees.

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