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Mandated Immunizations
HCS/335
CRYSTAL TESS PORTER, EMILY KOMER, ASHLI EVANS, ANTIONETTE WATTS, QUIENSALA HAMILTON
INSTRUCTOR: DR. FERGUS
Public Health Current Affairs
March 2020, state of emergency declared
Shelter in place and mass quarantine orders in place
Pandemic is declared by WHO
Universal Masking
Covid-19 vaccinations are developed for mass distribution
Jan 2021 vaccinations released by three pharmaceutical companies
724K have died from Covid-19
President Biden, health care organizations, and private companies have mandated vaccines in the workplace
Public Health Current Affairs
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Legal and Ethical Issues
Eliminates right to refuse
Availability
Bribery
Legal and Ethical Issues
Eliminates right to refuse
Availability
Bribery
Impact
Requires Rebuttal Preparedness
Employee Percentages
Ethics
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How have healthcare managers/organizations addressed the issue?
Vaccine Ambassadors
Sharing information throughout the community
Built trust amongst community leaders
How have healthcare managers/organizations addressed the issue?
Barriers Addressed: Equity, Access, Forgetfulness, Friction, Health Literacy, Lack of Adequate Information
Research Base: Reminders of upcoming vaccination appointments can increase vaccination rates. This intervention is often part of a multi-pronged approach combined with removing access barriers to optimize uptake.
How have healthcare managers/organizations addressed the issue?
Several state and local health departments, including in Michigan, Oklahoma, and Baltimore, Maryland, are using text messages to:
Help people schedule COVID-19 vaccination appointments
Provide education and vaccination site information
Gauge views on vaccination
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Strategies
Implement a policy that is conducive to everyone regarding vaccinations. For example, allow an employee to opt out if it goes against their beliefs or medical reasons.
Do more research to ensure that requiring mandatory vaccinations from employees would 100% always protect the facility and staff.
For example, if its not 100% effective staff my decline to take it they don’t feel that it want be effective to the facility.
Strategies
Accommodations for Medical, Religious Objections should be put into place.
For example, health care managers should have a procedure in place in case someone is unable to get vaccinations according to one of the reasons listed above.
In the event an accommodation is required, an interactive process a discussion about accommodations should take place or the employer(organization) could face liability for discrimination under the ADA or Title VII (and their state law equivalents).
For example, if accommodations are required, they must ensure they go through the correct process.
Ensure that staff is aware of options that are available to them about mandatory vaccinations.
For example: You don’t want to force someone to get a mandatory vaccination if they have a valid reason not to get it. And they are aware of options that are available to them.
Out of these strategies I feel that ensuring that staff is aware of all options available to them is the most important, because I feel if you don’t tell them, you are not being upfront and honest, and they feel that they were forced into getting a vaccine.
Strategies
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References
Vaccines and immunizations(2021). https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/index.html
Preeti, J. R. (2021).
Ethical Considerations for a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
. https://sccm.org/Blog/June-2021/Ethical-Considerations-for-a-COVID-19-
Vaccine-Mand
Executive order on requiring coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination for federal employees(2021). https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/
2021/09/09/executive-order-on-requiring-coronavirus-disease-2019-vaccination-for-federal-
employees/