December 18, 2020 05:15 AM
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Bloomberg
SO, HOW MANY VACCINE DOSES ARE STATES GETTING? The mystery of why tens of thousands of promised COVID-19 vaccine doses won’t be coming to Illinois as scheduled over the next few weeks deepened as states around the country began to complain of the same thing, Greg Hinz reports.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday that federal Operation Warp Speed officials who control distribution of the Pfizer vaccine had informed the state without explanation that its allotment for the next two weeks would be cut “roughly in half.”
Will employers require workers to get vaccinated?
Stephanie Goldberg
It s the latest COVID conundrum. Either choice carries risk, including potential legal exposure.
While the public anxiously awaits widespread availability of coronavirus vaccines, employers view the rollout with some trepidation.
The arrival of vaccines presents companies with a thorny dilemma: whether or not to require that employees get vaccinated before returning to the workplace.
Either choice carries risk. While a mandate could help companies more quickly resume business as usual, it also could expose them to lawsuits from employees who object to the vaccine for various reasons or those who have adverse reactions to the shot. On the other hand, employers that don t have a mandate could be liable in the case of a workplace outbreak.