Sanford Health has decided to mandate vaccinations for all employees. They have to be vaccinated by Nov 1st. They said 70% of nurses are already vaccinated, and I assume the other 30% will be difficult about it so it could get interesting.
I usually assume most of the unmasked are also unvaccinated. I am fully vaccinated and still masking, and also staying distant even when I know all other parties are fully masked. This pandemic is not over and will never be over as long as doing what is needed to stop it isn't being done. Each variant is going to be worse." they didn't want people who weren't vaccinated to be obvious and possibly targeted "
Personally, I don't see this as a problem.
Nobody I know of believes most the anti-masker/anti-vaxxers are wearing masks.
There are vax'd people, like myself still wearing masks.
I appreciate our folks who wore masks some for 18 months at work. As long as they are wearing them inside, I will have one on too.
I could not read the article; however, I have been expecting a booster shot, bu the end of the year. Now, I am thinking it may be sooner rather than later.I was surprised to read this. I guess a lot of will be getting a third shot. Back to masks.
Biden Officials Now Expect Vulnerable Americans to Need Booster Shots
Denice, when do you think they'll have the third shot available?The last I heard it would be those 65 and over as well as those with compromised immune systems. The government bought more doses from Pfizer and Pfizer is working on beefing up the vaccines for current known variants. With it just being one shot appointments will be easier to get. What made it hard when I made mine was needing to make both appointments at the same time. I would find an appointment for the first shot but there was no appt available for the second. This will be those of us trying to make appointments when there was a big rush to try to get vaccinated.
Here in Canada they are actually allowing the mixing of vaccines for first and second shot. They aren't "encouraging" it per se, but are telling people not to hold out or vaccine shop and that it's safe to get whatever one is available...Their focus is getting people double vaxxed quickly.What I have read is that the booster will be interchangeable. I got the Modern vaccine but I could get the Pfizer booster.
My concern is that variants are going to continue, and they are just going to get worse. Delta isn't more deadly, but it is more transmissible. What's to say the next variant won't be more transmissible and more deadly? And what happens when there is a variant that the vaccine isn't effective against?I could not read the article; however, I have been expecting a booster shot, bu the end of the year. Now, I am thinking it may be sooner rather than later.
I hate to say this but with all the anti-vexers, it seems that masks and Covid Vaccines will be a future fact of life, for the future.
Oregon had 984 yesterday, but Ohio has two-and-a-half times as many people so we’re doing worse. And we’re the only state in the country that has an actual law that prohibits employers from requiring health care workers to get vaccinated. Unbelievable.Ohio had 1300 new infections yesterday.
There is a variant from South America, also. It has been ravaging those central American and South American countries. It is slowly entering the US. It was called the "Lima" variant. I do not know what the new classification will be.My concern is that variants are going to continue, and they are just going to get worse. Delta isn't more deadly, but it is more transmissible. What's to say the next variant won't be more transmissible and more deadly? And what happens when there is a variant that the vaccine isn't effective against?
That one is 100% a failure on the part of the federal government. They know perfectly well hundreds of people with covid are coming into the US every day from those countries and then dispersing through the US, yet they do nothing but dodge the issue and play pass the buck. I wonder how many of the people coming in are vaccinated?There is a variant from South America, also. It has been ravaging those central American and South American countries. It is slowly entering the US. It was called the "Lima" variant. I do not know what the new classification will be.
They are predicting it to be here soon, as it is in a few southern states, like Texas.