Work Covid Vaccine Mandates Make Sense in Some Cases, Fauci Says

Workplace vaccination requirements may make sense for certain environments such as hospitals, Anthony S. Fauci told a health law group Tuesday.

“People don’t like mandates about requirements,” the nation’s top infectious diseases expert acknowledged. But in some situations, the communal concern about safety means that “it makes sense to get people vaccinated—and it’s not unprecedented.”

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden‘s chief medical adviser for Covid-19, made his remarks less than two weeks after a federal judge in Texas threw out a lawsuit challenging Houston Methodist Hospital’s vaccination requirement. More ...