More companies requiring employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Companies crossed the U.S. are requiring employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The determination from recommending the vaccine to requiring it comes arsenic the delta variant of the coronavirus has sent cases, deaths and hospitalizations soaring.

COVID-19 shots person been disposable to the nationalist nether exigency usage authorization since December 2020. Then the Food and Drug Administration past week gave afloat support to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Shortly aft that move, Walt Disney World reached a woody with its unions to necessitate each workers astatine its taxable parkland successful Orlando to beryllium vaccinated.

Drugstore concatenation CVS said pharmacists, nurses and different workers who person interaction with patients volition person to beryllium inoculated.

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A list compiled by NBC News shows Amtrak, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Google and United Airlines are among companies that person announced vaccine requirements.

Some companies that are requiring shots person said employees who don’t get vaccinated indispensable get a enactment from a doc explaining wherefore they can’t get the changeable and past acquisition play COVID-19 testing. And immoderate companies person asked vaccinated employees to amusement their vaccination paper to a brag oregon the caput of quality resources.

Reaction to the latest COVID-19 request successful immoderate workplaces is mixed.

“If you don’t privation it, don’t bash it,” said Jacksonville nonmigratory Larry McGee.

“I’m each for it. It’s benignant of similar wearing spot belts. It’s thing you should beryllium required to do. It’s affecting not conscionable yourself but besides your co-workers,” Jacksonville nonmigratory Leigh Fogle said. “If you’re a backstage concern owner, arsenic I am, I would marque my employees beryllium vaccinated.”

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“I think, if you enactment successful the aesculapian field, it makes cleanable sense,” Jacksonville nonmigratory Jessica Harding said.

Across the U.S., hospitals systems are requiring employees to get the shot. In Jacksonville, Baptist Health volition necessitate much than 12,500 employees to beryllium afloat vaccinated by Nov. 15, and Ascension volition necessitate COVID-19 vaccinations for its associates.

Earlier this summer, President Joe Biden announced that national workers volition person to get vaccinated oregon other look play investigating and different measures.

On Aug. 18, Biden announced that his medication volition necessitate that nursing location unit beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19 arsenic a information for those facilities to proceed receiving national Medicare and Medicaid funding.

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And Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said successful a memo Wednesday that subject troops indispensable instantly statesman to get the vaccine.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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