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This is also something I'm watching carefully. My expectation is that most businesses will have some official policy of "you must be vaccinated to enter" but t
by dahfizz 6y ago
This is also something I'm watching carefully.
My expectation is that most businesses will have some official policy of "you must be vaccinated to enter" but they won't actually enforce it. This decreases their liability on both sides (Don't want to be seen inviting outbreaks, but don't want to deal with HIPAA / privacy laws).
I was surprised to learn that the US already has a list of required vaccines for legal immigration[1]. I think its very likely the Covid-19 vaccine makes the list, considering even the flu vaccine is required.
[1] https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-b-chapter-9 https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-b-chapter-...
- petertodd 6y agoIt's fairly common for countries to require vaccinations simply to enter them as well. For example, I've personally gotten the yellow fever vaccine, which is required to enter Kenya. That vaccine is actually relatively risky. Yellow fever is a serious disease, and the vaccine from weakened - but not killed - yellow fever virus. Thus very occasionally it causes what's basically yellow fever. That's still much safer than the risk of getting yellow fever if you are visiting a place like Kenya. But at least where I live, doctors won't give it to you without confirming where exactly you are travelling, because the otherwise the risk/benefit tradeoff isn't worth it.
- mcguire 6y agoA while back, when outbreaks of measles were occurring in the US (IIRC), they were sometimes blamed on immigrants. I wasn't surprised that vaccination was required for immigration, but it took a surprising amount of searching to find it.