Duke, UNC, other NC hospital systems requiring workers to be vaccinated
https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/duke-unc-other-nc-hospital-systems-requiring-workers-to-be-vaccinated/19784704/?version=ampDURHAM, N.C. — Major hospital systems across North Carolina, including Durham-based Duke University Health System and Chapel Hill-based UNC Health, announced Thursday that all staff and physicians must be vaccinated to continue working there.
The moves come on the heels of the North Carolina Healthcare Association's decision backing mandatory vaccinations for health care workers. The association represents 130 hospitals and health systems statewide.
"Protecting patients, visitors and health care personnel from COVID-19 continues to be of paramount importance. Hospital and health system employee vaccination against COVID-19 is vital to safely care for patients by protecting them from infection and to mitigate the spread of the virus within health care facilities and among clinicians, patients and their families and friends," the association said in a statement.
More at link, including statement that 9/21 us tge deadline for emoyees to be vaccinated.
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We have had recent Covid cases - and deaths - in the local hospital here and it's bound to get worse especially in the fall - and more likely now that it's "tourist season" with visitors from throughout the country - just in time for mask requirements reduced to the "honor system." 
They'll be dead soon.
Back when I first got vaccinated, I was so relieved and excited that I talked about it. And this older gentleman who I know and like said that he wasn't getting vaccinated since his daughter is a nurse at the local hospital - and she isn't getting the vaccine, and he gets his medical advice from her! He's in his mid 80s, speaks well and appears generally healthy.
And we have had Covid cases in the local hospital here. I have two friends who also work there - one in the ER - and they were the very first I knew who got the vaccine, back in January, though they had to travel downstate to a major hospital to get the Pfizer.
The local paper is very proactive on Covid news. If there's a new outbreak or another Covid death in the hospital, it makes the front page. There have been 2 more deaths in this county in the past 2 weeks. 
And the last time I saw this gentleman and the topic of vaccinations came up - as it always does - he reiterated the advice from his daughter and said that if they mandated vaccinations at the hospital here, she'd sooner quit her job than get it.
I hope her dad stays well byt, should he contract covid, it's all on her! 
The thought of a healthcare worker unwilling to get vaxed just speaks to the fact that they are in the wrong career!
I wish the FDA would grant full approval for the vaccines as that might make it possible or easier for other business, schools, etc. To absolutely demand vaccination proof.
Stay safe! 😷
She had to get the MMR vaccine before she could attend classes. Isn't this true in schools these days? I can remember getting some sort of vaccines right in school - I was a kid and have no idea what they were - but if they can mandate vaccines in schools, they certainly can in hospitals which are dealing with a pandemic!
In most states there is always the religious exemption for vaccines that parents can use to opt out. 
Religion has nothing to do with vaccines.
But, imho, all schools should require this and all recommended/mandated vaxes!
It's younger kids who are more vulnerable, I'm old enough that I got mumps, measles and chicken pox all in elementary school. These days, there are vaccines and I'm guessing that they're mandated. Kids spread illnesses enough as it is!
When I was about 50 years old, I had titers taken by a new employer to see if I still had immunity to child vaxes. All were good, but no immunity to German measles. The employer, a hospital, didn't recommend the vax, so I never got it. I wonder if this disease is still of concern?
I know. I had all those childhood vaccines, too.
They are mandated for school attdndance.
And she's not much younger than I am, but had no records of what she had before and when. MMR vaccinates against Mumps, Measles and Rubella (German Measles). They didn't have a vaccine when I was in school, but they do now and if it's required for college students, it must be for younger kids, too. I got Mumps, Measles and Chicken Pox in the elementary grades, but I got German Measles (Rubella) when I came home from college one year for Easter Vacation! And I think that's the one you can get more than once? 
Ty for sharing.
I got them in the elementary grades and if I turn on old TV shows in the wee hours - recently I've caught "Leave It to Beaver" (late '50s-early '60s) and "The Partridge Family" (early to mid '70s) which I never saw "first run," I couldn't help notice that they mention Measles, etc., like it's just something that kids go through. I grew up thinking that. But we've since learned that these "normal" childhood illnesses can be much more serious. I don't know if you saw this sad thread, but it speaks to the reason we now have a Measles vaccine.
Roald Dahl's message to anti-vaxxers
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215639037
Ty for sharing!
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