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When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated their travel recommendations they also updated masking recommendations, some of them specific to health care settings.
The new recommendations include allowances for a fully vaccinated health care employee to remove his/her mask in specific situations. Specifically, the CDC says: “Fully vaccinated HCP (health care personnel) should continue to wear source control (masks) while at work. However, fully vaccinated HCP could dine and socialize together in break rooms and conduct in- person meetings without source control or physical distancing. If unvaccinated HCP are present, everyone should wear source control and unvaccinated HCP should physically distance from others.”
These mask-free and social-distance-free situations are a welcome reprieve, but it creates an unintentional yet potentially awkward situation. Although 70% of FHP employees are fully vaccinated, 30% are unvaccinated. We want vaccinated employees to enjoy these new freedoms and at the same time we don’t want to create resentment nor do we want unvaccinated employees to feel alienated. This is a sensitive situation that requires great diplomacy from everyone.
Vaccinated employees:
Unvaccinated employees:
Again, this is a sensitive, potentially divisive situation. As health care workers and more importantly, as FHP employees we are all in this together, don’t lose sight of that.
Please reach out to your leader or Human Resources if you need guidance. If you have questions, comments, concerns or suggestions please send them to EmployeeFeedback@FoundationHealth.org
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