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— News that UNC Health and Duke University Health System will soon require all of their physicians and staff to be vaccinated against coronavirus has created a backlash from many Triangle residents
"As an employee, but with no patient care or contact, I shouldn't have to take a vaccine that hasn't been fully FDA approved, and even if I get the shot, I still have to wear a mask," a Duke Health employee told WRAL NewsIt is our personal right to decide when and what vaccines, if any, we want, just like any other working American," a Wake County woman said
"I guess my body and my choice only applies when they want it to," said a Harnett County woman who works in a hospital setting"I do not want this vaccine, period, and to threaten my job and livelihood and threaten termination if I do not get it is immoral."
But one Raleigh business owner who's enforced his own vaccine mandate for several weeks said Friday that he has no regrets about the moveGusler said he also faced plenty of backlash in the beginning, but the move hasn't hurt businessNow, however, "98 percent of what we hear is just, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you,'" he saidBetween them, Duke Health and UNC Health have nearly 17,000 unvaccinated workersTom Owens, senior vice president of Duke Health and president of Duke University Hospital, said he hopes other businesses and health care organizations also step up and start requiring workers to be vaccinated
More than 94 percent of recent cases in North Carolina are in people who haven't been vaccinated, according to the state Department of Health and Human ServicesOnly 57 percent of people age 18 or older in North Carolina are fully vaccinated, and another 3 percent have had one dose of vaccine"I think they’ll find it’s not going to hurt your business," he said