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Kaiser Permanente study: Child vaccination rates have declined during pandemic
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LOS ANGELES - The numbers of recommended vaccine doses administered to children, including for measles, decreased dramatically after the declaration of a national state of emergency in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Kaiser Permanente study.
While the decrease was lower and recovered in children under 2 years of age, it was more severe and persistent in older children, according to the study s lead author, Dr. Bradley Ackerson, a Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center pediatric infectious disease specialist and an investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation s vaccine team.
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As hospitals, large healthcare providers and employers in other industries prepare for the vaccine rollout, many will institute mandatory vaccination policies for their workforce. Employers who implement mandatory vaccination policies should be aware of the legal challenges arising from the enforcement of such policies and should implement best practices to minimize the risk of claims. But at the end of the day, this is a question of balancing the rights of co-workers to a safe workplace
and the employee’s legal rights to refuse to be vaccinated.
Employment lawsuits filed for refusal to comply with a mandatory vaccination policy typically arise as religious discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) or disability discrimination claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), or their state law equivalents. This article will discuss religious discrimination and accommodati