How Many More New Yorkers Will Die Due To Governor’s Harsh Vaccine Mandate?

The State of New York, insistent on forcing harsh experimental COVID vaccine mandates, has forced 32 hospitals with limited capacity to halt nonurgent elective procedures. An exodus of hospital workers who refuse to take the forced jabs, along with hospitalizations from the vaccines and more COVID increases in the state, is the blame.

Health department officials issued determinations at the hospitals Dec. 6, applying to procedures scheduled to occur on or after Dec. 9.

The determinations were issued as part of an executive order announced Nov. 26 by Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, which allows the state to limit nonurgent procedures for hospitals and health systems with limited capacity to ensure the organizations can address potential capacity constraints. The state defined limited capacity as below 10 percent staffed bed capacity, or as determined by the health department based on regional and healthcare utilization factors.

Kaleida Health said the organization fired about 100 employees Dec. 6, in accordance with the state’s vaccination mandate for healthcare workers, who had previously been granted a religious exemption and chose not to receive their initial shot by the state’s Dec. 5 deadline. Overall, about 200 workers have now been separated from the organization related to the state vaccination mandate.

As of Dec. 6, the final determination included 32 upstate facilities in the North Country, Mohawk Valley, Capital Region, Western New York, Central New York and Finger Lakes regions. They are:

A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital
Albany Medical Center Hospital
Brooks-TLC Hospital System
Canton-Potsdam Hospital
Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center
Crouse Hospital
Erie County Medical Center
F.F. Thompson Hospital
Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare-St. Luke’s Division
Geneva General Hospital
Glens Falls Hospital
Guthrie Cortland Medical Center
Highland Hospital
Little Falls Hospital
Mercy Hospital of Buffalo
Mount St. Mary’s Hospital and Health Center
Oneida Health Hospital
Oswego Hospital
Rochester General Hospital
Saratoga Hospital
Sisters of Charity Hospital
St. Elizabeth Medical Center
St. Mary’s Healthcare
Strong Memorial Hospital
The Unity Hospital of Rochester
The University of Vermont Health Network-Alice Hyde Medical Center
The University of Vermont Health Network-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
The University of Vermont Health Network-Elizabethtown Community Hospital
University Hospital SUNY Health Science Center
UPMC Chautauqua at WCA
Upstate University Hospital at Community General
Wyoming County Community Hospital

State officials said procedures not covered by the governor’s order are those for cancer (including diagnostic procedure of suspected cancer), neurosurgery, intractable pain, highly symptomatic patients, transplants, trauma, cardiac with symptoms, limb-threatening vascular procedures, dialysis vascular access and patients “at a clinically high risk of harm if their procedures are not completed.”

Other procedures and surgeries covered by the governor’s order will be put on hold until Jan. 15 at the 32 facilities.

In addition to New York requiring 32 hospitals to postpone electives, Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health is proactively postponing elective inpatient surgeries at Buffalo General Medical Center and Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital.

In a Dec. 6 news release, the health system said it is taking this action given a reduction in workforce, the subsequent reduction in staffed beds, the significant rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations across its facilities and the increase in COVID-19 cases in the region.