The joint statement comes the same day the Department of Veterans Affairs said it would require vaccination for all medical staff.
In the face of rising COVID-19 case counts fueled by the delta variant and ongoing reluctance to get vaccinated among many Americans, more than 50 major healthcare professional groups called on hospitals and other healthcare providers Monday to make the jab a job requirement.
Monday’s joint statement comes from medical groups representing millions of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers. Many people working with patients and long-term care in the sector as a whole remain unvaccinated, the groups noted. On the same day, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he’s “very frustrated” with the slowing gains on vaccination as the delta variant spreads. “We’re going in the wrong direction,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The number of job openings in the sector have been on the rise since the pandemic, but it’s worth noting openings were already exceeding the number of job hires before the pandemic. “ ‘If we don’t do something right now to take a gigantic step forward to vaccinate people we are going to have another bad fall.’ ”
Many employers, in and outside the healthcare sector, have shied away from mandated COVID-19 vaccines, even as it’s become increasingly clear they legally can require the vaccine for continued employment.
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