Last Friday’s front page article by Annmarie Timmins was about a handful of healthcare workers and the governor’s predictions that our hospitals would lose droves of providers with a workplace mandate on vaccines. Those predictions proved false based on reported new data from NH hospitals. The article reports 99.7% compliance at Concord Hospital and similar numbers elsewhere. The high vaccinated numbers tell me the overwhelming majority of providers, with selfness devotion, are still there more for the patients than for themselves.
I believe our health care facilities will deliver better care in the long run by letting go those who are selfish and refuse to follow the vaccination mandate or frequent facility testing. As to the article mentioning the governor, I put him in the selfish category. His motivation is his own political power, not the public’s health. When his leadership at the beginning of the pandemic won him re-election with mask mandates, National Guard testing/ vaccination and registry data support he took full credit. He ended all that last spring when the vaccines’ effectiveness first kicked in and cases went down. His limited actions during the fall surge have had minimal effect. Will he take any credit now for our highest in the nation cases/100,000 population? He should at least be promoting mandates at all levels and follow the example taken by own his state’s hospitals. If he doesn’t care about the health of the people of NH then he should be let go too.
Nick Perencevich
Concord