Health-care staff across the country have been suspended or fired for not complying with a vaccine mandate issued by President Joe Biden last month.
In September, over 31 percent of California hospitals reported staff shortages, according to the state's health department.are quitting due to pandemic burnoutDespite the shortage, more people are enrolling in nursing schools. Nursing schools enrollment in the U.S. increased 5.6 percent in 2020 from the prior year, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
Senator Ted Cruz on Saturday criticized"firing doctors and nurses—during a pandemic—because of an authoritarian vaccine mandate." Above, the GOP lawmaker from Texas speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on October 6.In August, Ballad Health CEO Alan Levine decided against implementing a vaccine mandate across his health-care staff after learning that he could lose as many as 900 nurses, according to.
Health-care workers nationwide, including in California and Texas, have protested against the COVID vaccine mandate. In June, dozens of employees at the Houston Methodist hospital in Texas
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