What happens to compulsory vaccination in the United States

14 January 20222 years ago babelfish

In the United States only 62.7% of the population is vaccinated and on Monday there was the highest number of infections in the world in one day but the obligation to vaccinate finds it difficult to make its way

President Joe Biden's fight against Covid is getting tougher. Earlier this week, the United States recorded at least 1.13 million new infections , the highest national daily total ever recorded in the world and yesterday the Supreme Court rejected the obligation to vaccinate or test in large companies, a strongly desired proposal. from the President who now has an uphill road ahead of him towards the midterm elections.

BECAUSE THE SUPREME COURT SAID NO

The conservative-majority Supreme Court justices have deemed "an improper imposition on the lives and health of many Americans" the requirement of vaccination or testing in companies with at least 100 employees.

Already many states, led by Republicans,had denounced the proposal as an abuse of power and even private companies, religious groups and national industrial associations such as the National Retail Federation, the American Trucking Associations and the National Federation of Independent Business have sued. mandatory vaccination in the United States.

For the majority of the Court, Reuters writes, the risks run by everyone everywhere and every day due to pollution are much higher than that of becoming infected with Covid in the workplace.

YES TO THE VACCINAL OBLIGATION FOR HEALTHCARE STAFF

Instead, the vaccination obligation for people who work in the health sector has passed. According to the news agency, about 10.3 million workers in 76,000 health care facilities including hospitals and nursing homes receive money from the government's Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs for seniors, people with disabilities and low-income Americans. Workers will have to get vaccinated by the end of February.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW

Biden to stem the infections had already issued an executive order in recent months that imposed the vaccination obligation by November 22, 2021 on all federal workers.

The idea of imposing the vaccination obligation in large companies would have involved more than 80 million employees and the White House estimated that it would have avoided 250,000 hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. In the United States currently only 62.7% of the population is vaccinated and a third have received the booster dose.

Vaccines are our best tool to protect you against COVID-19. If you are unvaccinated, you are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital and 20 times more likely to die.

Get vaccinated. Get boosted. Wear a mask. We will get through this together. https://t.co/JbMJr5rFxS

– President Biden (@POTUS) January 12, 2022

Biden, expressing his displeasure with the Supreme Court's decision, said it is now up to states and employers to decide whether to require workers to take "one simple and effective step," namely get vaccinated.

Some companies, CNBC reports, including Citigroup, Nike and Columbia Sportswear, have announced in recent days that they would start firing unvaccinated workers.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/come-sta-andando-obbligo-vaccinale-negli-stati-uniti/ on Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:21:37 +0000.