https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-time-tough-covid-vaccine-100031244.html
Happily, momentum toward a crackdown has been growing. Last week, the University of California announced that all of its campuses would require students, faculty and staff to be vaccinated to fully participate in fall term classes and activities, joining about 580 other higher educational institutions with similar rules. This is similar to the long-standing policy of public grade schools to require a regular course of childhood vaccines for attendance, except for those with a valid medical reason or, in some states, religious opposition.
I thought this may have been another precedent being set but if there are 580 other higher education institutions with the same measures...
And despite having an enviable high vaccination rate, San Francisco officials are also getting tough, ordering the city's workforce to get inoculated as soon as the Food and Drug Administration gives formal approval to the vaccines, which is expected within the next two months, and requiring that workers in all high-risk settings, such as hospital and nursing residential facilities, be vaccinated by Sept. 15.
This author expects the FDA Full Approval to be granted by the end of September.
He also managed to throw this in there...
Tougher restrictions will inevitably lead to cries that constitutionally guaranteed rights are being violated, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says that private businesses and employers are within their rights to mandate vaccines. And there is also solid legal precedent for sweeping government vaccine mandates. In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that smallpox mandates issued by Boston and Cambridge during a 1901 outbreak were a reasonable infringement on personal freedom.
He thinks that not only should employers be able to mandate vaccines in the workplace, but the Federal Government as well.
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