Posted: Jan 23, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 23
The COVID-19 vaccine isn t mandatory for health-care workers in Canada. Some believe it should be.(Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP Photo)
As COVID-19 vaccinations slowly roll out across Canada, some are asking whether they should be mandatory for people working in health care, long-term care and retirement home settings.
Professors of law and medicine at the University of Ottawa recently published an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal advocating for the vaccine to be made mandatory for anyone in those categories. We shouldn t just leave it to individual retirement homes to make decisions about whether or not to require that their health-care workers are vaccinated, said Colleen Flood, law professor and research chair of health and law at the University of Ottawa.
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