St. Luke’s employee 'shocked' by COVID-19 vaccine requirement, CEO says it's 'the right time'
-originally posted on LinkedIn
As the former CEO of St. Alphonsus Medical Group in Idaho and a licensed physician in Idaho for nearly 15 years, I commend both St. Luke's and St. Alphonsus for their courageous requirement that all employees involved in patient care be vaccinated against SARS COV2. Patients have the right NOT to be infected with a deadly disease when they enter the hospital. There is nothing unusual about this requirement. Hospitals already require clinical staff to be immunized for many other infectious diseases and have for decades. There is extensive legal precedent dating back to a 1905 SCOTUS decision. The opposition to vaccination is astoundingly ignorant, based on fake news disinformation and unethical. Autonomy does not justify infecting others with a potentially fatal disease. I am board certified in internal medicine and once served as a Chief of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. This requirement is a "no-brainer." The best hospitals in the country require COVID immunization. Don't Idaho patients deserve to be safe too? Idahoans should be outraged thst they have been fooled by fake news antivaxx disinformation.
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