Vaccination warrants begin to roll out after FDA gives full approval to Pfizer Shot

Several institutions began implementing mandates for the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday after the Food and Drug Administration gave its first full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech outbreaks, and there are likely to be others to do so in the coming days. .

While many governments, schools and companies have set the requirement to vaccinate in recent weeks, others said they would stop until the FDA grants full approval to the vaccine, a step that goes beyond the emergency use authorization that allowed the distribution of the December vaccine to begin.

Following FDA approval Monday, President Joe Biden urged decision makers to set vaccine requirements.

“If you are a business leader, a non-profit leader, a state or local leader who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccines, now I ask you to do so,” he said at a news conference. “Require it”.

The most important institution that took that step Monday was the Pentagon, which had previously said it would begin deploying a vaccine requirement for all members of the service as soon as the FDA fully approved the shootings, or in mid-September if approval had still been will not come by then. The requirement will affect more than one million active service members.

“These efforts ensure the safety of service members and promote the readiness of our strength, not to mention the health and safety of the communities in the country where we live,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday.

The New York City Department of Education, the largest school district in the United States, also announced that it will now proceed with a vaccine requirement for all public school teachers and other staff members.

New York State University campuses are also moving forward with a vaccine mandate that gives students, faculty and staff at 64 SUNY schools 35 days to get the two doses of the vaccine. He University of Minnesota and all Louisiana public colleges and universities are also initiating vaccine requirements for students, they confirmed Monday.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced that all public and state school employees will need to be vaccinated or undergo regular testing “at least” once or twice a week. Louisiana does the same with its state employees.

The FDA announcement also sparked vaccine requirements in the private sector. CVS Health now demands that all of its corporate staff and many of its store employees be vaccinated, a move that affects about 100,000 people. Chevron also became the first major U.S. oil producer to announce a mandate, which will apply to some employees. United Airlines announced Monday that it would streamline its plans by a month and demand that all employees be fully vaccinated by Sept. 27.