Mercy Sister Mary Haddad, president of the Catholic Health Association, is on a mission. She hopes to clarify some of the current confusion leading to both vaccine hesitancy and recent protests over vaccine mandates being put in place to curb the escalating spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19. She is starting in her own backyard, so to speak, encouraging all health care workers to get vaccinated. In a July 23 statement, she said vaccinated health care workers were doing their part to “protect themselves, their co-workers, their patients, their loved ones, and their neighbors.” She also said the association which supports more than 2,200 Catholic hospitals, health care systems, nursing homes and long-term care facilities across the country, “strongly supports member health systems as they take necessary steps toward ensuring as many health care workers as possible receive the vaccines.” She told Catholic News Service Aug. 11 that some Catholic health systems are now mandating that their employees be vaccinated for COVID-19, while others have said they are awaiting full approval of the vaccine from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Some Catholic hospitals now require employees to get COVID-19 vaccine – Detroit Catholic: Read Catholic News & Stories
Some Catholic hospitals now require employees to get COVID-19 vaccine – Detroit Catholic: Read Catholic News & Stories
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