New York's largest health provider says it has fired thousands of employees for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of the state's mandate.
Northwell Health announced on Monday that it has fired 1,400 employees who refused to be inoculated.
Just one week earlier the health system announced it had terminated two dozen 'unvaccinated leaders' at management level or above out.
It is unclear what job titles the recently fired workers had and whether they were clinical or nonclinical workers.
Northwell Health says the remaining 76,000 workers have all received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Thousands of other hospitals and medical centers are expected to announce that they have fired staff members for not the jab.
'Northwell regrets losing any employee under such circumstances, but as health care professionals and members of the largest health care providers in the state, we understand our unique responsibility to protect the health of our patients and each other,' spokeswoman Barbara Osborn said in a statement, according to Newsday.
'We owe it to our staff, our patients and the communities we serve to be 100 percent vaccinated against COVID-19.'
Northwell Health (pictured), New York's largest healthcare provider, say it has fired 1,400 employees for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine
The hospital system says the remaining 76,000 employees received at least one dose ahead of the state's mandate which went into effect on Monday. Pictured: Sandra Lindsay (left), a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester in New York City, December 2020
It is unclear what job titles the fired workers had and whether they were clinical or nonclinical staff members. Pictured: New York resident Krystel Walk interacts with a large crowd rainsing their voices against a mandate to get vaccinated or lose their jobs at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, August 2021
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