Multiple groups consisting of healthcare workers, including medical experts, doctors, and nurses are asking their employers to make COVID-19 vaccination among their employees’ mandatory, as the Delta Variant is rapidly surging hospitalizations in almost all parts of the country.
On Monday, this group of people’s statements was, “Vaccination is the primary way to put the Pandemic behind us.”
As many as 60 such groups currently exist, including the American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Infectious Diseases Society of America said, how unvaccinated healthcare workers are supposed to be blamed for passing on the risk of infection to the patients and long-term healthcare workers.
The act to vaccine Americans against the deadly virus has been interrupted for weeks now, however, 57% of the population has successfully got vaccinated, of which 96% were physicians, according to the survey done by American Medical Association. Another data analysis done by the US Department of Health and Human Services at the end of May discovered that one in four healthcare workers were not vaccinated.
Bottom Line: In these recent months more and more groups of healthcare workers demanded to receive the shots and make it mandatory among all healthcare facilities to stop the spread of the virus.
