In this Quick Start Guide, employers can help the employees in the workplace to understand the importance of safeguarding their co-workers as well as themselves.

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep vulnerabilities in our nation’s public health infrastructure. We’ve lost lives, intensified inequities and eroded years of progress across our economy. Getting back to our lives—back to seeing our loved ones, back to school and back to business—requires that we turn the tide against COVID-19 and create a stronger, healthier future for all of us. Vaccines, highly effective and safe, offer hope and protection that can help our country and our economy rebuild and recover.

We’re on our way, but significant challenges remain, including the emergence of a highly transmissible Delta variant that’s driving a new wave of infections across the country. Public health officials warn that we must encourage many more Americans to get vaccinated, including more than 80 million people in the United States who are currently eligible for vaccines but remain unvaccinated and at real risk.

On September 9, 2021, the Biden administration announced a new plan that obligates all employers with more than 100 workers to require vaccination or weekly testing for COVID-19. Now that the question of whether to require vaccinations has been settled, employers face a lost list of questions about how to do it. For more information on this article from  Health Action Alliance click this link