‘We’d rather be unemployed than abide by vaccine mandate’
Vaccine hesitancy among German healthcare workers is causing concern about further staff shortages
21 February 2022 - 19:42
Frank Vogel, a 64-year-old local politician from the eastern German Erzgebirge region, is scrambling to find ways to keep nursing homes open when a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers takes effect next month.
His region near the Czech border has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Germany. With only 57% of healthcare workers there having received two shots against Covid-19, implementing the mandate will result in staff shortages that will force facilities to shut...
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