Emma said: “I was so surprised my parents got vaccinated so soon. I was expecting that they would have to wait for the over 60s and 50s priority list or phase 2 of key workers. My only concern with the vaccination staff not checking their employment status is that anybody co...
Methods The vaccination programme was structured as a two-level operation: a global vaccine deployment support team and local vaccine deployment teams in each participating country, territory or administrative area. The central group, led by a global vaccine coordinator, oversaw medical, legal, ...
Preliminary results refer to a sample of 550 workers who completed the multi-step evaluation from August to December 2020, before vaccination campaign started. The participation rate was 90%. At first level screening, 39% of the subjects expressed general psychological discomfort (GHQ-12), 22% po...
The Victorian governmentsaid it expectsall front-line aged-care and health workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. In an attempt to increase coverage, from Wednesdayit will allowaged-care and disability-care workers to jump the queue in state-run mass vaccination clinics. Data from places wh...
—an authority upheld by the US Supreme Court, based on a 1905 case,Jacobson v. Massachusetts. All states currently have school vaccination requirements for children, subject to certain exemptions (such as those based on disability or religious objection); requirements for health care workers vary....
There are myriad reasons why mandating a COVID-19 vaccination for employees makes good business sense. Employers have the opportunity to be (or at least be seen) as an upstanding community health steward. They also can ensure the health and safety of workers and their famili...
"Because vaccinations require employees to answer pre-vaccination disability-related screening questions, a very large incentive could make employees feel pressured to disclose protected medical information," Rella said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention'srecent relaxationof itsguidance around ...
these steps and also clearly explain how the information collected from workers regarding their vaccination status is going to be used. So in other words, that policy can’t be exercised in a vacuum. It really needs to explain clearly to workers why it is being put into...
For example, many of these studies were conducted primarily in older White male individuals20,27,30; therefore, their generalizability to other populations, such as younger adults, female individuals, and other racial and ethnic minority groups, remains unknown. The potential effects of vaccination ...
” These could include an exemption from mandatory vaccination and alternative measures to protect coworkers and customers from the non-vaccinated employee—for instance, additional personal protective equipment (“PPE”) for the non-vaccinated employee, moving the employee’s workstation to a different...