The Covid-19 Delta variant and public vaccine resistance have reignited the debate over mandates, and it may get heated. It’s important to make distinctions between government and private mandates, and it would help if the Food and Drug Administration finally expedited full approval of the clearly successful mRNA vaccines.
How to handle the 30% or so of adults who haven’t been vaccinated has taken on more urgency as the Delta variant spreads and the U.S. heads toward flu season. U.S. hospitalizations have doubled in a month and tripled in California, where some 78% of adults have received at least one vaccine dose. Covid will never be eradicated, but the threshold for herd immunity has increased because the Delta variant is more transmissible.
Vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe disease, but the virus risk to the elderly and people with chronic conditions isn’t zero. In April the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that an unvaccinated worker at a Kentucky nursing home caused an outbreak that infected 18 fully vaccinated residents. Two were hospitalized, and one died.
Thus the call for vaccine mandates, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday mandated shots for hospital, nursing home and state workers. Those who refuse must be tested at least once a week, which makes the order less compulsory. New York City is requiring city workers to get vaccinated, and many private hospitals, including the Mayo Clinic and Houston Methodist, have announced mandates.
Some of our friends on the right say workers should be free to make their own decisions, and in a free society that should be the default. No government should order the general public to take a vaccine except in cases of the most extreme health danger.
opinion I’d love to read this but there’s a paywall. Please don’t publicly tweet articles that remain behind your paywall. If you tweet it out, it should be readable from within Twitter.
opinion Yes by all means approve an unvetted drug...or drugs...I mean gene therapy...for political reasons
opinion So, it’s a case of “it’s you, not me?”
opinion Blame the unvaccinated. PERIOD
opinion If you die or are hospitalized from covid in August 2021, you have only yourself to blame.
opinion How effective are traditional vaccine technologies against 'gain of function' viruses? GOP Medical Witnesses: COVID-19 'Exactly What You'd Expect If You'd Gone Through Gain-Of-Function'.
opinion Opinions expressed in the comments are even more wacky than the Opinion piece
opinion Time to blame the uneducated
opinion Quite disheartening to hear their testimony last Tuesday before Congress - still not willing to give approval and not telling the public why they are so hesitant. Makes one wonder....
opinion I don’t have the vaxx simply because the government and media are so fanatical about me getting it. They didn’t bribe me to get vaxx’d against more serious diseases like meningitis and polio.
opinion Casting around for someone or something to blame. Rather than the irresponsible or befuddled people who refuse to get vaccinated/wear face masks plus the media and politicians who wish to make money/win elections by encouraging that behavior
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WinfieldSmart opinion There are plenty of other reasons why people wouldn’t want to as well. Some people are very skeptical of big pharma on one hand and government on the other, and justifiably so. When those two get together to push something, should we be more or less skeptical?
opinion Mandate them! Remember when seat belts were the issue du jour? Seat belts save lives….SO DO VACCINES 💉
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opinion Some Americans are just making up excuses... But I guarantee they will be the first to demand non FDA approved treatments like trump got when they are dying.
opinion NO. It is time to blame disinformation from Republican based media like the WSJ and Fox idiots.
opinion They have a process for a reason. The president and his cronies need to back off and let them do their job. If it's not safe enough to pass the test then a new safer solution needs to be developed.
opinion We what France is doing, no mandate, just have to prove vaccination to do anything, movies, restaurants airlines and other transportation…. Those that are unvaccinated can isolate if that’s the life they want to live…..
opinion I say mandate the vaccine. And stop with the dame games.
opinion Rushing through approval just so the gov't can mandate vaccines without violating the Nuremburg Code will most decidedly NOT reassure the hesitant.
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