LAST YEAR’S HEROES, THIS YEAR’S UNEMPLOYED

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A yet unknown portion of healthcare workers in the State of New York have been forced from their jobs by the Biden-Cuomo-Hochul vaccine mandate. A scramble is now happening to fill the vacuum created by the mandate. National guard, internationally imported help from the Philippines and retirees are being used as bandages to fix the problem as hospitals are shutting services and care options.

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0:00.0	We are in the middle of perhaps the biggest story in America right now and it has the
0:05.6	ability and it is threatening to affect every working American.
0:10.3	Right now in New York we have frontline healthcare heroes that went from media darlings to this.
0:18.1	Take a look.
0:19.1	Tens of thousands of medical workers can now be fired if they don't get shot.
0:23.9	New York State has become the first in the nation to require all healthcare workers to
0:28.4	get a COVID-19 vaccine or face being fired.
0:31.9	Beyond vaccinated are officially out of time at New York State's medical facilities.
0:36.7	With 16% of the state's hospital workers not fully vaccinated that means more than 83,000
0:43.2	are at risk of termination.
0:45.6	Officials taking drastic action to prepare for mass firings and staff shortages.
0:50.9	At a press conference Monday, Governor Kathy Hocal announced plans to send national guard
0:55.2	troops to short-stacked hospitals.
0:57.4	I will be signing an executive order to give me the emergency powers necessary to address
1:03.3	the shortages where they occur and that's going to allow me to deploy the national guards.
1:08.5	I love being a nurse, I love helping everyone but my I don't feel like this mandate is the
1:16.3	right way to go about this.
1:17.8	I don't want to get vaccinated.
1:19.2	I'm ready to lose my job.
1:20.6	There's a lot of jobs out there that you don't need to be vaccinated.
1:23.7	Deborah Conrad is a nurse in Western New York suing the state over its vaccine mandate.
1:29.2	She's still uncomfortable with getting the shot.
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