Mandated vaccines threaten to divide long-term care industry - Roll Call

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“We are seeing that many CNAs are leaving the centers that are mandating, and frankly no nursing center in America today can afford to lose CNAs,” she said, adding that there are more than 170,000 openings for certified nursing assistants in skilled nursing facilities alone. The annual turnover rate stands at 120 percent.

Shanna Lacy, a 38-year-old nursing assistant at an Iowa nursing home, is opting out of the vaccine over concerns about unknown long-term effects, driven by the vaccine’s fast-tracked timeline coupled with her distrust in government.

“I don’t feel like any corporation or government or whoever should make somebody do something to their body that they don’t want to,” she told CQ Roll Call.

Lacy enjoys working at her facility and said she gets the flu vaccine every year. But she said the pandemic is not severe where she lives, and her belief in former President Donald Trump’s claims that he won the 2020 presidential election further undermines her trust in the government’s vaccine operation. 

Lacy’s nursing home offers prize drawings to employees who take the vaccine, she said, while those who don’t are tested three days a week. She has not been told the facility would require her to take the vaccine, but if that happens, she said she would find work elsewhere, or maybe even leave the field.

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