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Will vaccine improve safety in close-quartered nursing homes? Health leaders said it's crucial to vaccinate people living in long term care facilities, who are among the most at-risk of complications due to COVID-19. and last updated 2020-12-16 20:33:12-05 When loved ones in long-term care facilities and nursing homes contract COVID-19, the policy is to help them ride it out in-house, instead of going to the hospital. Patients are only taken to the hospital if absolutely necessary. Has that policy put lives at risk, and if so will a vaccine help improve safety? According to the Associated Pr...

Even though employers can require workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine, few are expected to.  Like so much else about the coronavirus outbreak, getting workers vaccinated against the disease isn't a simple issue. "It really is nuanced. It really does depend. You have to know your workforce. You have to know your clientele," said Bob Harris, a labor and employment attorney with the Columbus law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. Generally, employers can require their employers to get vaccines as a condition of employment as long as it is job related and considered a business necessity, ...

Vaccines are seen as one of the best ways to stop COVID-19. Learn more about the types of vaccines, including the newly approved Novavax.

Although the initial stockpile of COVID vaccines will go a long way toward reaching the top-priority groups, there won't be enough to inoculate everyone on Day One, or even the first week.