1,000% have raised coronavirus infections in New York: all hospital and asylum employees will have to be vaccinated

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1,000% have raised coronavirus infections in New York: all hospital and asylum employees will have to be vaccinated

There is an unacceptably high rate of workers still unvaccinated.

Photo: Giuseppe Lami / EFE

All 450,000 workers in public and private hospitals and other health settings in New York State must be vaccinated by Sept. 27 to help curb the spread of the COVID delta strain. announced outgoing Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday.

Although he will step down on Aug. 25 amid sexual harassment scandals, Cuomo said his successor, Deputy Governor Kathy Hochul, was informed before the announcement, so it would be ratified.

“The Delta variant is spreading across the country and into New York; new daily positives rose more than 1,000% over the past six weeks, and more than 80% of recent positives in New York State are linked to the Delta variant, ”Cuomo detailed.

The order issued by the state Department of Health covers the staff of public and private hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities for the care of the elderly and congregation settings. There will be only small exceptions for medical or religious reasons, and in these cases they will have to show negative evidence on a regular basis.

The order recognizes what has been reported in recent months: there is an unacceptably high rate of workers still unvaccinated in hospitals and nursing homes, although they have had priority to do so since December.

Approximately 75% of the 450,000 hospital workers in NY have been vaccinated, however 25% (1 in 4) have not yet done so. Meanwhile, only 68% of the 145,500 employees (2 out of 3) in nursing homes in NY, who care for frail residents and those most susceptible to coronavirus, have been immunized.

More than 54,000 New Yorkers have died from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center. Of these, approximately 16,000 were residents in nursing homes and other similar facilities.

“The New York mandate will help ensure that hospitals and other health care providers can provide the best care for patients while keeping their workers and communities safe,” said Kenneth Raske, president of Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA).

The vaccine requirement “makes a lot of sense,” added Michael Balboni, executive director of the New York Metropolitan Area Medical Care Facilities Association (GNYHCFA), which represents nursing homes in the metropolitan area.

Meanwhile, the health workers union -Local 1199, Service Employees Union- did not comment immediately, but so far has refused to issue a vaccine warrant, he stressed New York Post.

Additionally, as of today the NYC mayoralty demands that you show the vaccination test -on paper or digitally- and a matching official identification (photo and name) is a requirement mandatory to enter many interior spaces in the five counties.

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