Nurses in Kansas Refuse to Give Experimental COVID Injections – They Value Life Over their Jobs
Nurses in Coffey County refuse to give COVID-19 vaccine
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Four nurses at a rural health department in Kansas are refusing to administer any COVID-19 vaccines, citing the fast development and production of the shots.
Coffey County Public Health Administrator Lindsay Payer said the nurses made their own decisions and expressed their concerns one by one. She called the vaccine documents concerning.
“I strongly feel that if people want this vaccine, they should receive it. Absolutely,” Payer said. “But just like it’s their choice to receive it or not, I feel like it should also be my choice to give it or not.”
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Tuscaloosa:No community spikes in coronavirus infections related to last week’s celebration of the University of Alabama football team’s national championship have been reported at local hospitals. But Mayor Walt Maddox said Tuesday the situation could change in the coming days. New arrivals at DCH Health System hospitals have remained fairly level since the daily inpatient totals soared above 100 in early December, according to the latest data from City Hall. “Although it’s not going down, it’s not going up precipitously,” Maddox said, “and certainly we’ll take that bit of good news.” Outside of Monday’s count of 31, the number of those arriving at DCH Health System hospitals suffering from the coronavirus has averaged about 20 per day for the past week. In that span, DCH had admitted 154 new COVID-19 patients while discharging 176 who had recovered. Among those admitted, 36% are from within the Tuscaloosa city l
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Alabama
Tuscaloosa: No community spikes in coronavirus infections related to last week’s celebration of the University of Alabama football team’s national championship have been reported at local hospitals. But Mayor Walt Maddox said Tuesday the situation could change in the coming days. New arrivals at DCH Health System hospitals have remained fairly level since the daily inpatient totals soared above 100 in early December, according to the latest data from City Hall. “Although it’s not going down, it’s not going up precipitously,” Maddox said, “and certainly we’ll take that bit of good news.” Outside of Monday’s count of 31, the number of those arriving at DCH Health System hospitals suffering from the coronavirus has averaged about 20 per day for the past week. In that span, DCH had admitted 154 ne