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Ascension St. John Children’s Hospital is on the east side of Detroit.
Beaumont, Spectrum and Ascension are the latest hospital systems to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for all employees. Southfield-based Beaumont Health made the announcement Wednesday afternoon, stating all 33,000 employees must be vaccinated after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully approves one or more of the vaccines. The Pfizer vaccine is expected to be approved in the coming weeks. We have a duty to protect our patients and our staff. The Delta variant is the most contagious form of COVID-19, Beaumont CEO John Fox said in a statement. It spreads much faster than the original version of the virus. We want all Beaumont team members to stay healthy. The vaccine is the only safe and effective way to truly protect against COVID-19.
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Sylvia Jarrus for Crain’s Detroit Business Moderna vaccine cards ready to be distributed at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, where more than 300 Oakland County Health Division employees inoculated about 3,400 people.
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Two major Michigan health systems and a handful of universities so far have mandated COVID-19 vaccines for employees and students and more are likely on the way as each new announcement creates precedent for others.
It s an issue that s not going away. Even as the pandemic recedes, all employers will need to consider the risk as workers return to offices in a state and country that hasn t met the goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the population. Michigan s rate of people fully vaccinated stands at just above 47 percent of the entire population, just slightly below the rate for the U.S. as a whole, according to the Mayo Clinic.