Arkansas hospitals see rise in employee vaccinations
Officials with Jefferson Regional in Pine Bluff and Arkansas Heart Hospital said they are seeing more employees get the shot.
Author: Frederick Price (KTHV)
Updated: 7:51 PM CDT July 26, 2021
PINE BLUFF, Ark. — When vaccinations were made available to healthcare workers months ago, some were hesitant about getting them.
The state is now reporting over 1,000 COVID-19 cases, and some frontline workers are rethinking the decision to get a shot.
"It's getting really bad and it's affecting younger people, which has kind of hit home for me obviously," said Michael Acosta, an ICU nurse at Jefferson Regional in Pine Bluff.