unless we also discount vaccines which use fetal cells for testing or production, I submit we are not really providing a legitimate alternative.
I would think any vaccine that provokes an immune response is a legitimate alternative. Almondmilk is a legitimate milk alternative for some recipes and preparations. We don't need to discount milk as legitimate or even a preferable ingredient in order to satisfy people who want less lactic acid in their diet or less animal product in their diet.
Secondly, we don't have a viable alternative currently.
Why aren't the vaccines I suggested viable alternatives?
If one were available to meet the objectors demands, I would agree - give them what they want so we can keep qualified staff.
I think the vaccines I suggested (as well as others) would meet the specific demand for no fetal cells.
In the absense of a valid alternative, the only option is to ask them to leave.
Why aren't the vaccines I suggested valid alternatives?
We should not lower our standards of expertise in the name of keeping 'qualified' individuals.
We escalated the use of a number of vaccines in the US last year without lowering "our standards of expertise." I don't see why another micro-escalation would be inconsistent with good medical standards and practices.
If they do not recognize best practices and/or take seriously their oath to 'do no harm' they are not qualified.
Well, I agree. I feel the same way about all Republicans who take an oath of Federal office but fail to condemn the Jan 6th sedition. The problem with Republicans as with troglodyte nurses is that there's just to damn many of them to simply eject without causing additional harms and violating our own oaths and responsibilities. Right now, we are about 1.2 million registered nurses short of present demand. The oldest baby boomers are 75 so we are entering a 20 years period of record high healthcare demand at a time when nurses are quitting the profession in record numbers.
So, even though I agree that rejection of the vaccine should be disqualifying for nurses, which is a kind of practicing scientist and should adhere to scientific ethics, I disagree that we are in the socio-political position to make such demands on nurses. We should also consider and respect that the call to nursing is often deeply connected to a religious calling. We need to pump a lot more money into training and compensating nurses and relatively cheap stopgaps like an alternative vaccine for religious exemptions are totally worth it if it keeps hundreds of thousands in a critically understaffed profession.
Pandemics are famous for forcing ethical compromises and wise public policy knows when to stand pat and when to yield. If I were a decision-maker staring at this particular problem, I would prioritize the retention of medical staff.
