Hospitals Changing Policies On Employee Vaccine Regimens

We are watching a
right-wing labor movement.

3 of Tulsa's Big 4 Hospitals Are Not Mandating Vaccines As A Universal Employee Policy.

Ascension Saint John is the first Tulsa hospital to announce it'll require all its employees to get the latest coronavirus vaccine by November 12, joining other health systems like Saint Anthony, OU, & Mercy, in Oklahoma City in requiring the shot for all their workers.

​News On 6 checked the other big healthcare systems in the area. As of now, Saint Francis, Hillcrest and OSU Medical Center will not require workers to get the vaccine. 

​  “At least, as far as it appears, there’s a good argument to be made than an employer can mandate vaccinations for employees,” labor and employment issues attorney Adam Childers said.

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  Market forces are perhaps the strongest leverage that concerned healthcare workers can openly apply in this effort. Yet they could get fired if their employer finds out they are helping organize a threatened boycott against the company who issues them a paycheck.
​  It will take a community outrage to turn the hospitals to a policy which respects their career professionals in a meaningful way. Patients can instruct their primary care physicians to direct their healthcare through hospitals which follow sensible policies.  But most metropolitan clinics are now owned by hospitals and have become 'feeders' to direct all services to the big hospitals.
  Other large employers in the state are waiting to see how the hospitals handle this. If the hospitals are able to enforce a vaccine regimen mandate, then many other employers are likely to follow suit. 

3 Big Questions:

1.   The vaccine is said to substantially protect a person from the illness, so why does it matter to a vaccinated person whether the rest of the community is inoculated?  Well, it's really about those deemed too frail to risk a vaccine.  Among that group is the pediatric and maternity ward of the hospital. 
2.   Since naturally occurring inoculation (by getting the virus and recovering) is a better form of immunity, why won't hospitals just accept medical records as proof someone has recovered?  Perhaps it's just corporate laziness, or a different belief about immunity issues? 
3.   We don't do this for hepatitis or Whooping cough, so why are we so extreme with this coronavirus?  Perhaps that's because of the radical spread over the past 20 months, and the unknown nature of this new strain of coronavirus.