La. State Health Officer: Mandating All Hospital Employees To Be Vaccinated ‘Is the Right Thing to Do’

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HARLOW: "Some of the most tragic accounts I've heard have actually come from you, you talked to my colleague Jake Tapper about a 24-year-old E.R. nurse dying from Covid, a 30-year-old clergy member, both unvaccinated, and I know you could not get into the specifics of their cases for privacy reasons, but we just moments ago heard more than 50 big health organizations like the American Medical Association, like the American Academy of Pediatrics say it is time to mandate all hospital employees be vaccinated across the country. Do you agree with that?
KANTER: "Yeah, I think that is the right thing to do. Both from protecting the very front line and vulnerable people that work there, they deserve to be protected. And from a patient’s perspective, when you go into a hospital, you want the assurance that you’re not given a disease you didn’t come there to get. And a lot of very vulnerable immunosuppressed patients are there. So I do think it's the right thing. I think more hospitals are going to do it, certainly once full FDA approval comes I think we’ll see many more institutions move in that direction."