Should Covid-19 vaccines be mandatory for health care workers? University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), RWJBarnabas Health, and Houston Methodist—are now saying they will require staff to get vaccinated against Covid-19, even as many other health systems are holding off on a mandate for now. FDA; none have been fully approved. However, in December 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said employers that mandated staff get vaccinated against Covid-19 would not violate federal disability law or civil rights statutes on discrimination, as long as they provided employees excluded from the workplace because of their vaccination status accommodations such as telework or leave and permitted exemptions for those refusing the vaccine on religious grounds.