- President Biden confirmed the VA would require all staffers to get the shot
- 115,000 frontline staffers will have two months to get inoculated
- Biden said ‘all docs’ would have to get the shot
- Comes amid nationwide spike of the Delta variant
- The move by the VA comes as dozens of medical groups called for mandatory vaccinations for health workers
Geoff Earle – Daily Mail.com July 26, 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Monday become the first federal agency to require its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated.
President Joe Biden confirmed the move in a brief statement to reporters Monday afternoon.
‘Yes. Veteran Affairs is going to in fact require that all docs working in facilities are going to have to be vaccinated,’ Biden said, following a report quoting his Veterans Affairs secretary regarding health care workers at the VA.
Following the action, 115,000 staffers will have two months to get inoculated against the coronavirus, and face being fired if they do not oblige.
The move comes after the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association and dozens of other medical groups joined in a statement calling for mandatory vaccinations for health workers amid the spike in the Delta variant and rising infections in states with low vaccination rates.
‘We call for all health care and long-term care employers to require their employees to be vaccinated against covid-19,’ they wrote. ‘The health and safety of U.S. workers, families, communities, and the nation depends on it.’
Biden confirmed that ‘all docs’ at the VA would be asked to get the shot ahead of his meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in the Oval Office – although the policy would in fact be more expansive within the VA.
I posted this yesterday. I was not aware, then, of the VA’s dictate to the staff. Used to be a nurse for the VA. Very little trust in the VA doctors as most VA doctors are Pakis who are poorly trained or dot Indians who are poorly trained. Veterans, the only people in the VA who really do care about you are the veterans who are nurses and techs. The VA admin does not care one fucking whit!:
The US Veteran’s Administration just sent me my invitation to save the nation. Don’t know why it was dated 21 June but I didn’t receive it until 26 July.
https://12160.info/profiles/blogs/veteran-s-administration-needs-to-reduce-the-amount-of?xg_source=activity
Certainly one way to reduce the size of a bloated agencies [also incorporated] of US, Inc! How about the Department of [de-]Education (Inc.) next? Where CONservatives failed (e.g., Ronnie Raygun per Charlotte Iserbyte), the neoliberal|communists|fascists may succeed!
In addition to deafening thunder and electrifying lightning strikes, sometimes unintended CON-sequences outline foreboding shrouds of storm clouds with silver. My take: The Power$ That Be seriously intend another incisive great divide to increase again by a power of 2 the in-process DISAGGREGATION of the body politic. How many ways can one divvy up the spoils? How many fine splinters when fine crystal tossed at the stony fireplace meets its ultimate fate? Whatever the pair of broken pieces, we can expect one VAXXED, the other VEXXED NOT VAXXED.
Old People are a big target. Esy kll
And the trumpists say “its not goverment mandated”
This is against US statutes and the Nuremberg Code. But I imagine that cowards will comply.
They’ll be coming for the veterans themselves next, you can count on that.
“The US Veteran’s Administration just sent me my invitation to save the nation”
My mother got one too. It’s certainly worded in a misleading way. To a senior, it almost sounds mandatory- “We must once again call on you to serve your country”. It’s also loaded with appeal to patriotism. Sickening. Yes, the mandate to veterans is coming.