Hospitals Should Hire, Not Fire, Nurses with Natural Immunity
Among many surprising developments during this pandemic, the most stunning has been the questioning of naturally acquired immunity after a person has had the COVID-19 disease. We have understood natural immunity since at least the Athenian Plague in 430 BC. Here is Thucydides: Yet it was with those who had recovered from the disease that the sick […]
Some Nurses Willing to Pay Hefty Price to Not Get COVID-19 Vaccine
These nurses are unvaccinated against COVID by choice. They’re part of a growing number of health care workers statewide protesting vaccine mandates in hospitals. [This nurse] says being forced to take a vaccine is against his religious beliefs. His wife […] says because she’d already had COVID her immunity is sufficient. The couple point to […]
Massachusetts Health Care Workers Refusing Free Flu Shots
Story Highlights Hundreds of health care workers in Massachusetts are declining the annual flu shot. Health care worker flu shot requirements vary from state to state. A recent study questions the scientific validity of mandating annual influenza vaccinations for hospital workers. Hundreds of health care workers in Massachusetts, including those in nursing homes and kidney […]
