At least four states in recent days have called in members of the National Guard to deal with healthcare staffing issues amid COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers. Late last week, Indiana became the latest state to deploy the National Guard to hospitals around the state. The Indiana Department of Health confirmed to local media that Guard members were sent to 13 facilities after officials with Indiana University Health, the state’s largest hospital system, made the request. Indiana University officials said that it is dealing with “all-time highs” of both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients. Earlier this year, about 125 Indiana University healthcare workers were fired for not complying with the system’s vaccine mandate, although the hospital said at the time that most fired workers were part-time. “As COVID cases continue to increase and hospitalization of COVID and non-COVID patients reach all-time highs, the demand and strain on IU Health’s team members, nurses …