Vaccine Mandate To Potentially Reduce Staffing At SF General By Hundreds

San Francisco CA

02 October, 2021

4:37 PM

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By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local September 30, 2021 With the long-awaited state vaccine mandate scheduled to kick in at midnight, hundreds of employees at the already short-staffed San Francisco General Hospital stand to be fired. Some 234 Department of Public Health employees remained unvaccinated as of Sept. 29, with an additional 75 having failed to report their vaccination status. Of those, 152 unvaccinated employees work at General Hospital, alongside 64 who have failed to report their status. These numbers are a small fraction of overall Department of Public Health employees. Some 95.6 percent of DPH workers are vaccinated. But the minuscule percentage of unvaccinated employees still represents a significant number of people because DPH is big — 7,474 employees. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.