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There are financial and psychological costs to getting a COVID-19 vaccine that employers can make easier or harder for their workers. Above, people wait to enter the Javits Center in New York City to receive a vaccine in March.
Last Wednesday morning, Kate, a financial tech engineer based in Michigan, used her last four hours of paid time off to go get a COVID-19vaccine.
Kate, who asked that her full name not be used because she fears reprisal at work, said her vaccine experience took more than two hours: an hour of driving, an hour of waiting, and 15 minutes of mandatory observation time afterward. “I was in a rush to get out of there,” she said, because her job requires her to clock in.
Over 93 million people in the U.S. have received COVID-19 vaccinations, according to a data tracker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That includes 32 million, or 9.7 percent of the nation’s population, who’ve been fully vaccinated.
More than 2 million Americans are being vaccinated each day. A new daily record was set Saturday, March 6, when about 2.9 million doses were administered, the White House announced Monday.
Young woman receiving a vaccine shot against a virus (Getty, Luis Alvarez)
As the supply of COVID immunizations becomes readily available for more segments of the general population, the focus turns to the complicated issue of vaccination mandates. Can your job, church, school, grocery store and other institutions in your daily life require you to get a shot?