Vaccine mandates complex
By Dhruv Khullar
October 15, 2021
... a third of eligible Americans are not fully vaccinated ... and .. mandates look like our surest path to normalcy ...
... soft mandates .. allow people to choose between inconvenience and immunization ...
The next step is the hard mandate: get vaccinated or get fired. A number of large companies .. have announced such mandates ...
“We used to have a weekly testing option,” Mitchell Katz .. C.E.O. of .. the largest public health-care system in the country, told me. “It pushed vaccination rates up initially, but not very much. It’s also not nearly as safe. Just because you’re negative on Monday doesn’t mean you’re negative on Thursday” ...
... staffing will become a bigger issue as mandates for health-care workers are instituted across the country ...
... In a rural hospital .. “even two- or five-per-cent staff loss has a .. major impact” ...
https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/the-complex-business-of-vaccine-mandates
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