Today, roughly ninety-two per cent of the state’s more than six hundred and fifty thousand health-care workers have received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. In mid-August, when New York’s mandate was announced, only three-quarters of the state’s hospital workers and less than seventy per cent of its nursing-home staff were fully vaccinated. hospitals now require vaccination for employees. The health-care sector, which employs more Americans than any other, is also the one in which hard mandates have gone furthest: nearly half of U.S. (A federal judge has temporarily blocked United’s plans to place unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave.) Many universities, too, now require COVID vaccination for students and employees. & T.-have announced such mandates for most workers. A number of large companies-United Airlines, Tyson Foods, Disney, A. The next step is the hard mandate: get vaccinated or get fired. Read The New Yorker’s complete news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic.
More than a third of all states now require either vaccination or weekly testing for public-sector workers the Biden Administration has ordered the creation of a similar national requirement for all workers at businesses with more than a hundred employees, a policy thought to apply to as many as a hundred million workers nationally. New York City, for instance, has introduced proof-of-vaccination requirements for indoor dining, Broadway shows, and gyms many workplaces have instituted mandates that include an option to get tested instead of getting immunized. First, there are the soft mandates-those which allow people to choose between inconvenience and immunization. Today, although there is no single, all-encompassing mandate, an interlocking set of requirements is taking shape. More and more, mandates look like our surest path to normalcy. And yet, today, a third of eligible Americans are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Carrots-lotteries, cash payments, gift certificates-have seemed preferable to sticks.
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Mandates, their role in the Revolution notwithstanding, have been condemned as “un-American” the COVID vaccines are also new, and only recently received full approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, American leaders have considered the pros and cons of vaccine mandates.
Washington’s order turned out to be one the most consequential decisions of the Revolutionary War. If smallpox were allowed to “infect the Army in the natural way and rage with its usual virulence,” he wrote, “we should have more to dread from it than from the Sword of the Enemy.” A mandate went into effect, and cases of smallpox plummeted. Still, on February 6, 1777, he sent a letter to William Shippen, Jr., one of the Army’s chief physicians. The mandate was sure to meet resistance, and could signal to the British how beset the Americans were by illness.
General George Washington weighed an Army-wide mandate for smallpox inoculation-a procedure with a mortality rate of around two per cent. Smallpox was especially devastating: nearly a third of those infected died. At the start of the American Revolution, ninety per cent of the deaths in the Continental Army were due to disease.
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