Nov. 15, 2021

Health care workers in Minnesota say they’re exhausted fighting the COVID pandemic and are facing even more difficulty as COVID-19 cases surge again in the state.

Some health care workers say they're frustrated with pushback from some unvaccinated COVID-19 patients and some who are asking for treatment that isn't based on sound science.

Dr. Bryan Williams, the chief wellbeing officer for M Health Fairview’s 34,000 employees, said he and his colleagues are battling misinformation right along with COVID complications.

Williams said it's particularly frustrating that people who can't medically tolerate the vaccines are getting sick when healthy people refuse to be vaccinated.

"Some folks that couldn't get a vaccine — or the vaccine wouldn't work in them because they were immunosuppressed — to see how long they held out and now finally get sick despite the vaccine being out ... we couldn't protect them long enough, and it is heartbreaking," he said.

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