Article from Rare by Zuri Davis.
At least one Minnesota medical company went to serious lengths to reiterate its commitment to health.
Essentia Health, a Duluth-based health system, passed a new policy that required employees get an influenza vaccine, also known as the flu shot, by a certain deadline. Employees could opt out if they qualified for a religious or medical exemption, though it was made clear that exemptions would be granted on a “very limited” basis. The health group, which has 15 hospitals and 75 clinics in Minnesota, Idaho, North Dakota and Wisconsin, reasoned that the policy would help protect vulnerable patients from infection.
Scot Harvey, a registered nurse, was fired from his job as an administrator for his refusal. He said he suffered fatigue from and other symptoms from the vaccinations he received as a soldier preparing to go overseas to serve in the first Gulf War. He applied for a medical exemption, but it was denied.
“If nobody stands up and says, ‘Hey, this isn’t right,’ then next year everybody in health care is going to have to have a flu shot, and then everybody in every job is going to have to have a flu shot,” he said, criticizing the lack of choice. He said his stance might make it difficult for him to find jobs in the future.
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Before I deployed to Southern Europe, then the Balkans, I received a battery of shots from the “gun.” The most serious reaction was from plague. I don’t know if there was a combined reaction from the other vaccinations.
If this guy want to work around “vulnerable” patients, he needs to follow the established protocols. He was looking for a job when he stopped at the hospital. He will, simply, have to stop some place else.
I see you can’t read. He was an administrator.
Next you are dumb enough to not pay attention that frequently the ‘BIG PHARM” who sell these shots get it wrong and the shot does not work
This is nothing but denying us our freedoms for the liberal reasoning “greater good”.
By the way, have they ever been sued and lost as a result of one of their employees being PROVEN to have given the flu to a patient.
This is nothing but CONTROL And yes, there ARE bad reactions to such vaccinations. And that is why they have not been able to force everyone in the USA to get the shots. Nor have they abolished the FUND that pays the victims of vaccinations.
People with the flu have no right to expose others to the flu.
People named Pineapple have no right to force their beliefs on others.
Now, bright person. Do you have any idea WHEN in the cycle, a person is going to expose others OR how? Do the BIG PHARMAs have a right to MISS it when they put out a flu shot? LOL
d the flu 3 times. Wile in the US Air Force I got 19 flu shot in 19 years. During those 19 yers I got the flu 19 times.
So who gains when a company like this demands we get shots? I know. The company that makes the vaccines. Want to bet that the company owns a share in the vaccine company?
And more importantly all the vaccines being used today are manufactured in foreign countries, primarily China and India; two countries with the worst records for food and drug manufacturing standards and facility cleanliness. I do not get the shots because the first and only time I did I got the illness. Flu shots in particular are all pure guesswork as to which strains are needed, if any. This is “big money” for these companies.
Bill; YOur comment is right on the money !! Ever time I got the Flu shot in the ARMY or out of it I got the flu. Thank GOD for a friend that was a medic and could sign off on my records; Since I QUIT way back in 1968 I have NEVER gotten the Flu !!
Can’t have anybody questioning the value of getting injected with illness inducing pathogens. If it does not make you ill it does not trigger an immune response and thus does not offer any protection.
But it DOES make the vaccine company a LOT of money.
That is the entire point. The FDA is totally controlled by former employees of the big pharmaceutical and chemical companies. Former employees of Monsanto and Bayer are sitting members of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Who do we think they are going to protect? Certainly not American citizens and farmers.
The policy is even more severe for Mercy Health System in Missouri (based in St. Louis). In this case there are NO exemptions, not medical not religious. Flu shot by November 15 or you are fired.
Not all that uncommon…
The Abington, Aria, Jefferson Hospital group will do the same to employees who do not get a flu shot…