Despite Overturned Vax Mandate, NY Gov Hochul Won’t Hire Back Unvaxxed Healthcare Workers

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) indicated Monday that she won’t permit the hiring of health care workers who’ve declined to get the COVID despite her vaccine mandate being invalidated by the courts and a serious healthcare worker shortage.

A state Supreme Court judge in Syracuse last week struck down The mandate to provide statewide vaccinations for all medical staffers. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) first implemented the mandate. Andrew Cuomo (D.NY) first implemented the mandate in 2021. Hochul then supported the edict after she was elected governor.

“Our healthcare systems are in desperate need of staff right now, we’ve had ambulances waiting five hours at our local emergency rooms to unload patients,” Rochester-based reporter Jennifer Lewke told Hochul. “The hospitals and nursing homes say they’re waiting for DOH [New York State Department of Health] guidance on whether they can hire any of those workers back. What’s the latest on that?”

Hochul said she’s considering legal options to challenge the decision that overturned the mandate and highlighted recruitment efforts for more vaccinated healthcare workers.

The Democrat also admitted that the shortage is “a problem,” While claiming that the answer is no, it is to not hire unvaccinated workers. “I don’t think the answer is to have someone who comes in who is sick, be exposed to someone who can give them coronavirus, give them COVID-19,” Lewke was informed by the governor. “I don’t know that that’s the right answer. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s not.”

“I think everybody who goes into a healthcare facility or nursing home should have the assurance, and their family members should know, that we have taken all steps to protect the public health and that includes making sure that those who come in contact with them at their time of most vulnerability, when they are sick or elderly, will not pass on the virus,” Hochul was added.

Lewke pressed the governor again. “Couldn’t there be other safety precautions, masking? Or other mechanisms in order to allow some of them back in? I mean we’re at crisis level here in our hospitals and nursing homes.”

Hochul said she understood “the balance” However, she maintained that she “cannot put people into harm’s way, because when you’re going to a health care facility, you expect that you’re not going to come out sicker than you went in, I think that’s something every New Yorker would expect.”

Hochul suggests that only people who have not been vaccinated can transmit the virus to others, but Hochul is wrong. according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it’s “likely that vaccinated people with breakthrough infection or people infected without symptoms can spread the virus to others.”

NY Governor Kathy Hochul claims she won’t employ unvaccinated healthcare workers, despite that mandate being overturned.

“I don’t think the answer is to have someone who comes in who is sick be exposed to someone who can give them COVID-19.”pic.twitter.com/qy6UICxGd4

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 24, 2023

Related: NY Health Care Upended Over Vax Mandate: Hospital Stops Delivering Babies, ER Closes, Wait-Times Explode

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