Why sleeves rolled up in hospital

Over time, this likely means a welcome return of more normal everyday activities, even as many basic pandemic safety measures will remain important. Some minor side effects can be expected following a shot, which is a normal reaction to the vaccine. Serious side effects, though, are rare. Since vaccination began in the U.

With the two-dose vaccines, these have more often followed the second dose than the first. But for all the vaccines, most side effects tend to go away within a day or so. With high demand and currently limited supplies, the vaccines are being rolled out in a prioritized order. The specific order of vaccination groups varies from state to state but generally gives priority to essential workers and those at increased risk from COVID Or, more recently, something men and women never make it to 40 because surgical masks are uncomfortable and alienating.

Or because a photogenic politician told them that Covid vaccinations are really a ploy to implant nanochips that will give shadowy Elites control over every man, woman, and child in the country. Naturally, in a nation that celebrates maverick behavior and hates to be bossed around, we can expect to find plenty of contrarians even among our 22 million health care workers enough people to populate Sweden twice over.

But it is deeply distressing that nurses tried to sue Houston Methodist Hospital for firing them over noncompliance with its mandatory Covid vaccination policy. Now, like every American, nurses have the right to believe whatever they like. However, as a vital part of the healthcare system, you have a professional obligation to take all necessary precautions to protect the health of your patients.

If you have cavils with medical science, you are probably in the wrong profession Christian Science nursing might be a better fit. What about nurses and other HCWs who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons? Hospitals with mandatory vaccination policies for other highly contagious diseases such as flu or Hepatitis B have been able to accommodate such nurses in the past by requiring them to wear masks; some even offered a choice: get your shots or you can wear a mask.

Over the past year, scientists all over the globe have been intently studying the prophylactic benefits of surgical masks as well as the well-beloved N95, but we have long known that wearing masks significantly reduces the risk of infecting others. So, hopefully, hospitals will allow masking as an alternative when they deploy vaccination mandates. The new study provides some evidence, but additional, larger studies are still needed before some hospitals may adopt the policy, John said.

In addition, future research is still needed to show that a short-sleeve policy actually reduces the number of infections spread in a hospital, the researchers said.

But John said the study has changed her personal preference for the way she wears her white coat. Original article on Live Science. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Thanks for reading Scientific American.

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