Duke University has informed staff that it will be fired if it is not vaccinated before Oct. 1 unless they have a valid exemption.
Leaders at the University of Durham, North Carolina, said staff may apply for a medical or religious exemption, but would not be rehired in the future if they were not vaccinated.
According to Wral, employees have until ten in the morning to receive and show documentation on vaccination, but university officials have said 91% of employees have met the requirement so far.
Duke University tells staff he will be fired if he is not vaccinated before Oct. 1 unless he has a valid exemption
Employees will be required to daily monitor symptoms and weekly tests, in addition to continuing to wear a mask.
Those who have not been shown to be fully vaccinated before the deadline will be placed on administrative leave until they receive the punch.
They will then have a week to receive the Johnson and Johnson single vaccine or the first dose of the Modern or Pfizer vaccines.
If an employee does not receive a vaccine within those seven days, he or she will be discharged.
Those who receive a dose of Modern or Prizer vaccine within these seven days will have six weeks to provide documentation that they have received the second required dose.
The employee will be fired if the second dose is not administered within six weeks and the fired will not be able to be hired again.
Leaders at the University of Durham, North Carolina, said staff may apply for a medical or religious exemption, but 91% of staff have already met the requirement.
Duke is currently one of the only major universities in the area that imposes vaccines, and they are a requirement for students and staff.
This comes after it was believed that Rutgers University was the first in the United States to require the vaccine for students earlier this year.
He announced that all students returning to campus in the fall of 2021 will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The mandate applies to all three school campus locations: New Brunswick, Newark and Camden.
Although students will need to be vaccinated during the fall semester of 2021, teachers and staff are urged to “be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible”.
Students will need to have proof of their vaccine, even 17-year-olds currently only eligible for the Pfizer vaccine.
Rutgers University is preparing to bring only vaccinated students to campus this fall
Students may apply for an exemption from the vaccine, either for medical or religious reasons.
Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the United States should expect more vaccine mandates now that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 trait.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday, he said he believes the approval will help push more Americans to get the Covid vaccine because it could reduce their fears about the safety of the shot.
But he added that companies and schools can feel more comfortable requiring workers or students to get a punch that has full authorization.
You will see much more [vaccine] mandates because there will be institutions and organizations that were previously reluctant to require vaccines, which will now feel much more empowered to do so, ”Fauci said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday (pictured) that the United States should expect to see more vaccine mandates now that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine receives full FDA approval
They could be organizations, companies, universities and colleges. We are even seeing it with the military. “
However, mandates are a controversial issue and many states directly ban laws that would require workers to be vaccinated.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 90 million Americans eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine have not yet done so.
If 30% of this group decided to get vaccinated, that would mean an additional 27 million Americans would receive gunshots.
Fauci explained that organizations are likely to be hesitant to require vaccines approved only for emergency use. Pictured: A student receives a first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on the Long Beach campus of California State University on August 11
Fauci added that more organizations will require mandates for their employees or for customers to do business.
At a press conference Monday morning, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby confirmed that full approval will cause COVID-19 vaccines to be required for the U.S. military.
“Now that the Pfizer vaccine has been approved, the department is ready to issue updated guidelines that require vaccination of all service members. A schedule to complete vaccination will be provided in the coming days,” he said.
And Louisiana State University President William Tate announced two weeks ago that the school would order students to receive the vaccine after full FDA approval.
The issue of mandates has been discussed and many lawmakers argue that demanding inoculations violates civil liberties.