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    We Can’t Rely on the Private Sector to Protect Public Health

    Companies may soon start requiring employees to be vaccinated to return to work, underscoring a shift in who is responsible for the common good in American society.
    by Wendy E. Parmet Feb 04, 2021 6 minutes
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    As COVID-19 vaccines become more available, should employers begin to require that their employees get vaccinated, or risk losing their jobs?

    This question will become only more urgent in the weeks and months ahead, as more people have the opportunity to get vaccinated. Already, emerging data reveal low rates of uptake among workers at long-term-care facilities—whose residents are extremely vulnerable to COVID-19, and need to be surrounded by people who are not sick. Moreover, a significant plurality of Americans remain “vaccine hesitant.” For these reasons, not to mention the desire to end the pandemic, the prospect of employers using their power to pressure their workers to get vaccinated can be tempting.

    [Gregg Gonsalves: The vaccine line is illogical]

    Although important legal questions and limits remain—such as whether vaccines that have received only emergency-use authorization, rather than full FDA approval, can be mandated—the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s assumes that employers can require, subject to limitations established by the Americans With Disabilities Act and

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