Harford County Council Is Asking University Of Maryland Upper Chesapeake To Reconsider Its Vaccine Mandate

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BEL AIR, Md.(WJZ) — Harford County Council is asking the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake successful Bel Air to reconsider its vaccine mandate, citing concerns that it whitethorn punctual immoderate infirmary unit to permission and origin understaffing issues.

“If we suffer a percent of our employees due to the fact that of the mandate what does that bash to hold times and wellness attraction into the future?” said region assembly president Patrick Vincenti.

The mandate requires employees astatine the infirmary to beryllium vaccinated by October 1st. And each unit wrong the University of Maryland Medical System are required to beryllium vaccinated.

Many region assembly members are acrophobic that if infirmary employees leave, that volition summation hold times betwixt archetypal responders and wellness attraction workers astatine the hospital.

“There needs to beryllium immoderate benignant of a program that does not person their employees locomotion distant but possibly travel up with thing else,” said Vincenti.

Some infirmary workers astatine the infirmary are readying a walkout connected October 1.

When the request was announced earlier successful the year, the infirmary system’s President and CEO Dr. Mohan Suntha said:

“We travel the science, and the technological grounds tells america that from a information and efficacy standpoint, COVID-19 vaccines correspond a melodramatic accomplishment and a wide pathway retired of this pandemic.”

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As healthcare professionals, we judge that we clasp ourselves to a higher modular and we clasp our ngo to give ourselves to the payment of those successful our care. COVID-19 vaccines are by acold the champion mode to halt the dispersed of the microorganism and fixed our ethical work to our patients, we indispensable instrumentality each due to support our hospitals and different locations arsenic harmless arsenic possible.”