{"id":1822976,"date":"2023-01-25T07:36:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822976"},"modified":"2023-01-25T07:37:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:37:01","slug":"hochul-wont-hire-back-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-despite-overturned-mandate-worker-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hochul-wont-hire-back-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-despite-overturned-mandate-worker-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul Won\u2019t Hire Back Unvaxxed Health Care Workers Despite Overturned Mandate, Worker Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhochul-wont-hire-back-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-despite-overturned-mandate-worker-shortage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822976&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kathy-hochul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathy Hochul<\/a> (D-NY) indicated Monday that she won\u2019t permit the hiring of health care workers who\u2019ve declined to get the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/covid-19-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID<\/a> despite her vaccine mandate being overturned by the courts and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ny-healthcare-upended-over-vax-mandate-hospital-stops-delivering-babies-er-closes-wait-times-explode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious healthcare worker shortage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0state Supreme Court judge in Syracuse last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/health\/2023\/01\/syracuse-judge-strikes-down-ny-vaccine-mandate-for-health-workers-state-overstepped-authority.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck down<\/a> The statewide mandate for vaccines for medical staffers. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a former governor (D-NY), implemented the mandate in 2021. Hochul later supported the edict as she became governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur healthcare systems are in desperate need of staff right now, we\u2019ve had ambulances waiting five hours at our local emergency rooms to unload patients,\u201d Rochester-based reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHEC_JLewke\/status\/1617630135431368710?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Lewke<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/hochul-is-speaking-in-rochester-at-145-p-m-about-housing-and-lead-exposure-proposals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Hochul. \u201cThe hospitals and nursing homes say they\u2019re waiting for DOH [New York State Department of Health] guidance on whether they can hire any of those workers back. What\u2019s the latest on that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul said she\u2019s considering legal options to challenge the decision that overturned the mandate and highlighted recruitment efforts for more vaccinated healthcare workers.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat acknowledged, however, that there is a shortage \u201ca problem,\u201d While they claim that it is possible to employ unvaccinated employees,\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think the answer is to have someone who comes in who is sick, be exposed to someone who can give them coronavirus, give them COVID-19,\u201d Lewke was informed by the governor. \u201cI don\u2019t know that that\u2019s the right answer. In fact, I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everybody who goes into a healthcare facility or nursing home should have the assurance, and their family members should know, that we have taken all steps to protect the public health and that includes making sure that those who come in contact with them at their time of most vulnerability, when they are sick or elderly, will not pass on the virus,\u201d Hochul was added.<\/p>\n<p>Lewke once again pressed Governor. \u201cCouldn\u2019t there be other safety precautions, masking? Or other mechanisms in order to allow some of them back in? I mean we\u2019re at crisis level here in our hospitals and nursing homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul said she understood \u201cthe balance\u201d However, she maintained that she \u201ccannot put people into harm\u2019s way, because when you\u2019re going to a health care facility, you expect that you\u2019re not going to come out sicker than you went in, I think that\u2019s something every New Yorker would expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul claims that the virus can only be passed on to unvaccinated individuals, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/effectiveness\/why-measure-effectiveness\/breakthrough-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it\u2019s \u201clikely that vaccinated people with breakthrough infection or people infected without symptoms can spread the virus to others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NY Governor Kathy Hochul claims she won&#8217;t employ unvaccinated healthcare workers, despite that mandate being overturned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think the answer is to have someone who comes in who is sick be exposed to someone who can give them COVID-19.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qy6UICxGd4\">pic.twitter.com\/qy6UICxGd4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1617925432111951873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ny-healthcare-upended-over-vax-mandate-hospital-stops-delivering-babies-er-closes-wait-times-explode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NY Health Care Upended Over Vax Mandate: Hospital Stops Delivering Babies, ER Closes, Wait-Times\u00a0Explode<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) indicated Monday that she won\u2019t permit the hiring of health care workers who\u2019ve declined to get the COVID vaccine, despite her vaccine mandate being overturned in the courts and a serious healthcare worker shortage. 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