What if you re required by your employer to get the COVID vaccine?
The CDC says over one million people have received the COVID-19 vaccine. When it is more widely available, the agency hopes everyone gets it, but could you be forced to get the vaccine by your employer?
and last updated 2020-12-30 08:31:46-05
SOUTHERN COLORADO â The CDC says over one million people have received the COVID-19 vaccine. When it is more widely available, the agency hopes everyone gets it, but could you be forced to get the vaccine by your employer?
According to OSHA, or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, companies can legally impose a vaccine requirement. Some currently do it for the flu shot. However, employees have the right to request medical or religious exemptions, under anti-discrimination laws. Experts say evaluating exemption claims can be a long process.
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There s a lot of false information around about the two leading COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. We wanted to provide the facts and answer some questions.
I m not a doctor but know a few, so we asked: Is the vaccine being introduced in Africa as a means of population control? The vaccine is not being introduced in Africa, especially not to control the population, said Dr. Josh Lesko, Brief19 lead policy analyst. There is a history of using various experiments and trials in communities of color, which include, unfortunately, times in which sterilization and what some have deemed efforts of genocide have occurred throughout history as relates to medicine. And so that s where this notion comes from. What we have to promote and educate is that we ve come a long way from that. We have regulatory and legal aspects in place to prevent repeating of history, said Dr. Khalilah Gates, pulmonary care specialist with Northwestern Medicine.
December 28, 2020
The speed of the coronavirus vaccine s development has some worried key steps were left out. We talked to experts about the process.
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There’s a lot of false information out there about the two leading COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. We wanted to provide the facts and answer some questions.
I’m not a doctor but know a few, so we asked: Did researchers skip key steps in vaccine development, like animal testing, for example?
“Steps were not skipped. There are clinical trials and pre-clinical trials that have to happen. So there are requirements in place to make sure that the appropriate standards are met, said Dr. Khalilah Gates, a pulmonary care specialist with Northwestern Medicine.
December 24, 2020
The idea of vaccines containing microchips has been around for a while. Doctors say there s no evidence of it actually happening.
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There’s a lot of false information out there about the two leading COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. We wanted to provide the facts and answer some questions.
I’m not a doctor but we know a few, so we asked: Does the vaccine contain a microchip?
“It is public disclosure of all of the components for its part of the FDA approval process that these companies can t have any surprises in what s in there, said Dr. Josh Lesko, Brief19 Lead Policy Analyst.
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There’s a lot of false information out there about the two leading COVID-19 vaccines in the US. We wanted to provide the facts and answer some questions.
I’m not a doctor but know a few, so we asked: Does the vaccine give me COVID-19?
“The vaccine does not give you COVID. The front runners use mRNA from COVID, which is a part of the basic building blocks of the virus, said Dr. Josh Lesko, Brief19 Lead Policy Analyst.
“It allows for a small amount of genetic material called messenger RNA to be transported to our cells. And then our cell is able to use that information in that piece of genetic material to make a very specific protein that is usually found on the outside part of the virus that causes COVID-19. Once the body is able to create those proteins, then it can then use its immune system to then create a protective response, explained Dr. Jasmine R. Marcelin an Infectious Diseases Physician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. �