“The rush to create a COVID-19 vaccine may do more harm than good” (Torreele2020). The article lamented the fact that a vaccine may only provide short term protection or may offer only low vaccine effectiveness (less than 50%). The article quotes Phil Krause, then deputy...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the annual rate of effectiveness for the flu vaccine is somewhere between 40% and 60%.3Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, has indicated that the material effectiveness rate of the ...
Note: In general, vaccine passports and exemptions are effective two weeks from the date of the second shot. (As we learn more about requirements for the 1-shot vaccine, we will update this). For all countries, proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. American Samoa –Testing and ...
(The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022) As of August 22, 2022, 21% of adults had not received the first COVID-19 vaccination (CDC, 2022). As a SAGE Working Group on vaccine hesitancy noted in 2014, vaccine hesitancy is specific to context, “varying across time, place ...
What Service Members Need to Know About the Current Vaccine Mandate Pentagon watchdog to review how branches have handled troops’ requests for vaccination exemptions Table of Contents COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate for Service Members What is the Current Military COVID-19 Vaccine Policy? What if ...
Amend Education and Childcare Codes to oppose or prevent vaccine mandates, or at least allow exemptions for medical, religious, or philosophical reasons; and prohibit mandates by unelected health bureaucrats both during and outside emergency orders. ...
“I will never regret the vaccine. Even if it turns out I injected actual poison and have only days to live. My heart is and was in the right place. I got vaccinated out of love, while antivaxxers did everything out of hate. If I have to die because of my love for the world, ...
Very few participants reported that religious beliefs – a factor cited for vaccine exemptions in the general U.S. population – was a concern for them. Recognizing the potential for positively influencing vaccine willingness, the NMSS recently developed a COVID-19 Vaccine Conversation Tip Sheet for...
Such HCP could opt for other types of COVID-19 vaccines (such as a viral vector vaccine), so even in those instances, HCP unable to take any COVID-19 vaccine due to a medical contraindication should be rare. Exemptions to vaccination on religious or personal beliefs are more complicated. ...
Groups including the America Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association have been lobbying for exemptions for truckers. Primary concerns include the worry that a vaccine mandate will cost the trucking industry part of its workforce, at a time when the supply chain is strained and th...