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Last year, the coronavirus killed nearly 250 officers nationwide, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.odmp.org/agency/657-chicago-police-department-illinois\">four in Chicago\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make sure that our officers who are literally working their tails off every single day, risking life and limb, are absolutely able to take advantage of this lifesaving vaccine,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said at a news conference Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-vaccine-mandate-most-workers-vaccinated/f5fd4074-ee72-448c-ae85-9d2e366cf75e\">79% of all city employees\u003c/a> in Chicago had complied with Lightfoot’s order to submit their vaccination status, officials said. 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That led to his admonishment by a judge Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees who do not report their status, including police officers, will not be paid, the mayor said Monday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-vaccine-mandate-most-workers-vaccinated/f5fd4074-ee72-448c-ae85-9d2e366cf75e\">According to WBEZ\u003c/a>, an internal memo sent over the weekend warned department employees that if they do not comply with the policy, they could be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 states have implemented some form of vaccine mandate for state employees, and many major municipalities have put them in place as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccine mandates \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1043332198/employer-vaccine-mandates-success-workers-get-shots-to-keep-jobs\">are effective\u003c/a> at getting people vaccinated, which in turn reduces serious illness and death from COVID-19. Major companies such as United Airlines and Tyson Foods announced mandates and have since reported that the vast majority of their employees are vaccinated. In Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee said last week that more than 90% of state workers have been vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But police officers have consistently resisted the vaccine at higher rates than the general public. Police unions have begun to raise concerns that tough enforcement of the mandates could result in staffing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Seattle, detectives and other nonpatrol officers were dispatched to emergency calls last week, \u003ca href=\"https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-police-department-activates-stage-3-emergency-operations-amid-staffing-shortage\">according to local TV station KOMO\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Massachusetts, where Gov. 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Roughly 85% of state police officers are vaccinated, but union officials say the resignations are exacerbating an already difficult staffing situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Critically low staffing is the single largest threat to public safety today,” said Michael Cherven, president of the State Police Association of Massachusetts, at a news conference on Monday. “We are in dire need of courageous leadership that places public safety above politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, opponents have filed lawsuits hoping to block the vaccine mandates, but there’s a long history of them passing legal muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the suits have already been rejected by judges, including the Supreme Court declining emergency appeals by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1042600683/sotomayor-nyc-school-vaccine\">teachers in New York City\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/19/1018010489/indiana-universitys-vaccine-requirement-should-stand-federal-judge-rules\">university students in Indiana\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that all public and private school students and employees \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-to-require-covid-vaccine-for-all-students-newsom-says/661843\">must be vaccinated\u003c/a> by July to be on campuses. They will no longer be able to be tested as an alternative to a vaccine unless they are eligible for medical or personal belief exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opinions about the mandates vary greatly and largely depend on the politics of the school community. School districts in more conservative areas of the state report more resistance to testing and vaccines than communities with more liberal residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This conversation is playing out very differently depending what community you are in,” said Edgar Zazueta, senior director of policy of the Association of California School Administrators during his \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeUXKQpIvkI&t=1173s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weekly legislative update\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendents in some districts are concerned about the potential for declining enrollment and increased staffing shortages because of the vaccine mandates, Zazueta said. On the flip side, he said the state mandate gives school districts like Los Angeles Unified that have instituted local vaccination mandates some cover in terms of defending themselves against legal challenges. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sherri Morgan, executive director at Long Valley Charter School\"]“In January, if they say they have to be vaccinated, I don’t know how I will stay open.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Modoc Joint Unified School District in Alturas, 31 teachers and other school staff are considering resigning because they don’t want to take the COVID test or get vaccinated, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a small district like Modoc Joint Unified, which has 857 students, a loss of nearly half its employees could force it to close, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have never gotten to these crossroads,” Taylor said. “What if you can’t staff your schools? I don’t know what the answer is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools in many rural areas already have been \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/covid-closes-rural-california-schools-as-delta-variant-spreads/660712\">struggling with staffing\u003c/a> shortages, which have been exacerbated this school year by high COVID infection rates and mandated quarantines, leaving classrooms without teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although there is more resistance to the mandates at rural schools, even the state’s largest district — Los Angeles Unified — is struggling to get its staff vaccinated. The district, which passed its own vaccine mandate for staff and students in September, recently moved its deadline for all staff to be fully vaccinated from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://lausd.granicus.com/player/clip/3864?&redirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school board meeting\u003c/a> on Sept. 28, district officials announced that only 1 in 5 employees had turned in proof of vaccination, according to the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-11/l-a-unified-extends-vaccine-deadline-for-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>. The district is trying to encourage vaccinations by hosting vaccine clinics on campuses, allowing staff up to three hours of paid time off to be vaccinated and hosting informational meetings for employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified School District Interim Superintendent Megan Reilly has said vaccines are the best way to keep kids in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vaccines are a game-changer for all of us,” she said in August. “They help reduce the chances of getting considerably sick and dying from the virus. We can and will protect our school communities by continuing to vaccinate employees and every eligible student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school boards of Culver City Unified, West Contra Costa Unified, Oakland Unified, Piedmont Unified, San Diego Unified and, this week, Sacramento City Unified, also voted to establish vaccine mandates for eligible students and staff that will begin before the state mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/01/california-becomes-first-state-in-nation-to-announce-covid-19-vaccine-requirements-for-schools/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state mandate\u003c/a> is set to begin either Jan. 1 or July 1, depending on when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully approves the shot for children in each grade span — 7-12 and K-6. Only the Pfizer vaccine is fully approved for those 16 and older. The Pfizer vaccine also has emergency authorization for use in children ages 12 to 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Unified Superintendent Jorge Aguilar called the district’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.scusd.edu/press-release/covid-19-vaccination-requirement-students-and-staff-approved-sacramento-city-unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vaccine mandate\u003c/a> “a bold stand to protect public health,” but warned the school board Tuesday that the requirement could increase staffing shortages in the district as students who don’t want to be vaccinated move to independent study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our independent study program is already challenged under our current circumstances,” he said in a statement. “A statewide staffing shortage has been exacerbated by the pandemic, and Sac City Unified, like most districts across the state, has been struggling to fill positions, so we can meet current demand for independent study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board voted to require all eligible students and staff to show proof of vaccination, either first or second dose, by Nov. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego Unified, school staff members have until Dec. 20 to receive both doses of the vaccine. That gives them two weeks over the winter break to achieve full immunity, said Andrew Sharp, spokesman for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp said it’s too early to know if the state vaccine mandate will affect staffing levels at the district. Currently, the district requires that staff either be vaccinated or tested for COVID-19. The human resources department hasn’t seen an exodus of staff as a result, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District vaccine mandates aren’t likely in rural districts, where more community residents are opposed to vaccines. Staffing shortages are already severe in some of those districts, and school officials worry about filling positions if more employees leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherri Morgan, executive director at Long Valley Charter School in the small, conservative town of Doyle in Lassen County, said it’s difficult to find employees even in the best of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you know where Doyle is?” she asked. “There is nothing for 40 miles north of Reno. It’s literally in the middle of nowhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every member of the Long Valley Charter School staff has indicated a willingness to take the COVID test, Morgan said. But she is nervous about what will happen when the option to test is taken away and the vaccine is mandated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In January, if they say they have to be vaccinated, I don’t know how I will stay open,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district, which serves 230 students, already has counselors and other credentialed employees in classrooms filling in for teachers every day of the week, she said. [aside tag=\"education\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan is particularly worried about what will happen if state legislators remove the option for personal exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not joking with you on this,” Morgan said. “I have thought about bringing in candidates from out of the country. I was close when COVID restrictions first happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynn Pennock, an employee at Temecula Valley Unified School District in Riverside County, expressed her displeasure with the governor’s most recent vaccine mandate at a school \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRvGrmu46fU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">board meeting\u003c/a> on Oct. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m totally happy to take the test, preferably the spit test. I don’t want something up my nose,” said Pennock, who said she has never had COVID, although three people in her family have contracted the virus. “I will take it every week without taking that vaccine. I don’t feel I need to take the vaccine. So you know what it is honestly, it’s extortion. It’s not a choice anymore. You are mandating something and that’s extortion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Clovis Unified, a district of nearly 43,000 students in Fresno County, opposition to COVID safety protocols has been heated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry Jager, associate superintendent of human resources and employee relations at Clovis Unified, said the district is trying to accommodate staff who are hesitant to take the mandated COVID test by offering both the nasal swab and the less invasive saliva test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has a shortage of instructional aides, bus drivers and substitute teachers, he said. Bus mechanics and district transportation managers are doubling as bus drivers, and human resources staff struggle to hire enough substitutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He expects the mandates — especially the vaccine mandate next year — will make it difficult to keep staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Konocti Unified School District officials struggle every year to find enough teachers and other staff for their schools. Assistant Superintendent Chris Schoeneman is certain the vaccine mandates will make staff shortages even worse in the district, which serves more than 3,700 students in rural Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schoeneman supports the vaccine mandate but understands that not everyone shares his beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do see us losing good people who just believe strongly that they should never be mandated by the government on something like this,” he said. “Their reasons may be political, health-related, religious, etc., so there is a lot to consider for folks and be respectful about. … But bottom line is it looks like you will need to be vaccinated if you want to work in education in California.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Some California school district superintendents, especially those in rural areas of the state, fear that teachers and other staff members will quit rather than be vaccinated or take weekly COVID-19 tests — a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-of-the-State-Public-Health-Officer-Vaccine-Verification-for-Workers-in-Schools.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state requirement\u003c/a> that began Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many California districts are already struggling to staff schools, and even a moderate number of resignations would mean not only fewer teachers but fewer bus drivers, instructional aides and substitute teachers to keep schools running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Taylor, executive director of the Small School Districts’ Association, said superintendents have told him some of their employees have threatened to quit their jobs because of the mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are employees that will refuse to take the test and the vaccination, which puts the school district in a situation where they would lose employees who would rather not give up their personal beliefs or who don’t trust the government,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID requirements will become even stricter this summer. Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that all public and private school students and employees \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-to-require-covid-vaccine-for-all-students-newsom-says/661843\">must be vaccinated\u003c/a> by July to be on campuses. They will no longer be able to be tested as an alternative to a vaccine unless they are eligible for medical or personal belief exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opinions about the mandates vary greatly and largely depend on the politics of the school community. School districts in more conservative areas of the state report more resistance to testing and vaccines than communities with more liberal residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This conversation is playing out very differently depending what community you are in,” said Edgar Zazueta, senior director of policy of the Association of California School Administrators during his \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeUXKQpIvkI&t=1173s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weekly legislative update\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendents in some districts are concerned about the potential for declining enrollment and increased staffing shortages because of the vaccine mandates, Zazueta said. On the flip side, he said the state mandate gives school districts like Los Angeles Unified that have instituted local vaccination mandates some cover in terms of defending themselves against legal challenges. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Modoc Joint Unified School District in Alturas, 31 teachers and other school staff are considering resigning because they don’t want to take the COVID test or get vaccinated, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a small district like Modoc Joint Unified, which has 857 students, a loss of nearly half its employees could force it to close, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have never gotten to these crossroads,” Taylor said. “What if you can’t staff your schools? I don’t know what the answer is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools in many rural areas already have been \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/covid-closes-rural-california-schools-as-delta-variant-spreads/660712\">struggling with staffing\u003c/a> shortages, which have been exacerbated this school year by high COVID infection rates and mandated quarantines, leaving classrooms without teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although there is more resistance to the mandates at rural schools, even the state’s largest district — Los Angeles Unified — is struggling to get its staff vaccinated. The district, which passed its own vaccine mandate for staff and students in September, recently moved its deadline for all staff to be fully vaccinated from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://lausd.granicus.com/player/clip/3864?&redirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school board meeting\u003c/a> on Sept. 28, district officials announced that only 1 in 5 employees had turned in proof of vaccination, according to the \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-11/l-a-unified-extends-vaccine-deadline-for-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>. The district is trying to encourage vaccinations by hosting vaccine clinics on campuses, allowing staff up to three hours of paid time off to be vaccinated and hosting informational meetings for employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified School District Interim Superintendent Megan Reilly has said vaccines are the best way to keep kids in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vaccines are a game-changer for all of us,” she said in August. “They help reduce the chances of getting considerably sick and dying from the virus. We can and will protect our school communities by continuing to vaccinate employees and every eligible student.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school boards of Culver City Unified, West Contra Costa Unified, Oakland Unified, Piedmont Unified, San Diego Unified and, this week, Sacramento City Unified, also voted to establish vaccine mandates for eligible students and staff that will begin before the state mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/01/california-becomes-first-state-in-nation-to-announce-covid-19-vaccine-requirements-for-schools/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state mandate\u003c/a> is set to begin either Jan. 1 or July 1, depending on when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully approves the shot for children in each grade span — 7-12 and K-6. Only the Pfizer vaccine is fully approved for those 16 and older. The Pfizer vaccine also has emergency authorization for use in children ages 12 to 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento City Unified Superintendent Jorge Aguilar called the district’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.scusd.edu/press-release/covid-19-vaccination-requirement-students-and-staff-approved-sacramento-city-unified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vaccine mandate\u003c/a> “a bold stand to protect public health,” but warned the school board Tuesday that the requirement could increase staffing shortages in the district as students who don’t want to be vaccinated move to independent study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our independent study program is already challenged under our current circumstances,” he said in a statement. “A statewide staffing shortage has been exacerbated by the pandemic, and Sac City Unified, like most districts across the state, has been struggling to fill positions, so we can meet current demand for independent study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board voted to require all eligible students and staff to show proof of vaccination, either first or second dose, by Nov. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego Unified, school staff members have until Dec. 20 to receive both doses of the vaccine. That gives them two weeks over the winter break to achieve full immunity, said Andrew Sharp, spokesman for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp said it’s too early to know if the state vaccine mandate will affect staffing levels at the district. Currently, the district requires that staff either be vaccinated or tested for COVID-19. The human resources department hasn’t seen an exodus of staff as a result, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District vaccine mandates aren’t likely in rural districts, where more community residents are opposed to vaccines. Staffing shortages are already severe in some of those districts, and school officials worry about filling positions if more employees leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherri Morgan, executive director at Long Valley Charter School in the small, conservative town of Doyle in Lassen County, said it’s difficult to find employees even in the best of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you know where Doyle is?” she asked. “There is nothing for 40 miles north of Reno. It’s literally in the middle of nowhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every member of the Long Valley Charter School staff has indicated a willingness to take the COVID test, Morgan said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan is particularly worried about what will happen if state legislators remove the option for personal exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not joking with you on this,” Morgan said. “I have thought about bringing in candidates from out of the country. I was close when COVID restrictions first happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynn Pennock, an employee at Temecula Valley Unified School District in Riverside County, expressed her displeasure with the governor’s most recent vaccine mandate at a school \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRvGrmu46fU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">board meeting\u003c/a> on Oct. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m totally happy to take the test, preferably the spit test. I don’t want something up my nose,” said Pennock, who said she has never had COVID, although three people in her family have contracted the virus. “I will take it every week without taking that vaccine. I don’t feel I need to take the vaccine. So you know what it is honestly, it’s extortion. It’s not a choice anymore. You are mandating something and that’s extortion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Clovis Unified, a district of nearly 43,000 students in Fresno County, opposition to COVID safety protocols has been heated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry Jager, associate superintendent of human resources and employee relations at Clovis Unified, said the district is trying to accommodate staff who are hesitant to take the mandated COVID test by offering both the nasal swab and the less invasive saliva test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has a shortage of instructional aides, bus drivers and substitute teachers, he said. Bus mechanics and district transportation managers are doubling as bus drivers, and human resources staff struggle to hire enough substitutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He expects the mandates — especially the vaccine mandate next year — will make it difficult to keep staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Konocti Unified School District officials struggle every year to find enough teachers and other staff for their schools. Assistant Superintendent Chris Schoeneman is certain the vaccine mandates will make staff shortages even worse in the district, which serves more than 3,700 students in rural Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schoeneman supports the vaccine mandate but understands that not everyone shares his beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Conventional wisdom says that if you’re vaccinated and you get a breakthrough infection with the coronavirus, you can transmit that infection to someone else and make that person sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new evidence suggests that even though that may happen on occasion, breakthrough infections might not represent the threat to others that scientists originally thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross Kedl, an immunologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, will point out to anyone who cares to listen that basic immunology suggests the virus of a vaccinated person who gets infected will be different from the virus of an infected unvaccinated person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because vaccinated people have already made antibodies to the coronavirus. Even if those antibodies don’t prevent infection, they still “should be coating that virus with antibody and therefore helping prevent excessive downstream transmission,” Kedl says. 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Initially, most vaccine experts predicted that mRNA vaccines like the ones made by Pfizer and Moderna that are injected into someone’s arm muscle would generate only the kinds of antibodies that circulate throughout the body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that might not be the whole story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what was the big surprise here is that the mRNA vaccines are going beyond that,” says Michal Caspi Tal, until recently an instructor at Stanford University’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and now a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Tal has found is that in addition to the circulating antibodies, there was a surprisingly large amount of antibodies in mucosal membranes in the nose and mouth, two of the primary entry points for the coronavirus.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“We’re not sitting ducks”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Immunologist Jennifer Gommerman of the University of Toronto found this as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first example where we can show that a local mucosal immune response is made, even though the person got the vaccine in an intramuscular delivery,” Gommerman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there are antibodies in the mucosal membranes, they would likely be coating any virus that got into the nose or throat. So any virus that was exhaled by a sneeze or a cough would likely be less infectious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gommerman says that until now, it seemed likely that a vaccine that was delivered directly to the mucosal tissue was the only way to generate antibodies in the nose or throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously a mucosal vaccination would be great, too. But at least we’re not sitting ducks,” Gommerman says. “Otherwise everyone would be getting breakthrough infection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies by Gommerman and Tal have yet to undergo peer review, and some already have suggested that the antibodies they have described may not confer true mucosal immunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s other evidence that a vaccinated person’s breakthrough infection may not transmit efficiently to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marion Pepper, an immunologist at the University of Washington, says a recent study from the Netherlands looked at how well virus from vaccinated people could infect cells in the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pepper says the answer was not well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you actually isolate virus from people who are getting a secondary infection after being vaccinated, that virus is less good at infecting cells,” Pepper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More Coverage' tag='coronavirus']“It’s not known why. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“We’re not sitting ducks”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Immunologist Jennifer Gommerman of the University of Toronto found this as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first example where we can show that a local mucosal immune response is made, even though the person got the vaccine in an intramuscular delivery,” Gommerman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there are antibodies in the mucosal membranes, they would likely be coating any virus that got into the nose or throat. So any virus that was exhaled by a sneeze or a cough would likely be less infectious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gommerman says that until now, it seemed likely that a vaccine that was delivered directly to the mucosal tissue was the only way to generate antibodies in the nose or throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously a mucosal vaccination would be great, too. But at least we’re not sitting ducks,” Gommerman says. “Otherwise everyone would be getting breakthrough infection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These studies by Gommerman and Tal have yet to undergo peer review, and some already have suggested that the antibodies they have described may not confer true mucosal immunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s other evidence that a vaccinated person’s breakthrough infection may not transmit efficiently to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marion Pepper, an immunologist at the University of Washington, says a recent study from the Netherlands looked at how well virus from vaccinated people could infect cells in the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pepper says the answer was not well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you actually isolate virus from people who are getting a secondary infection after being vaccinated, that virus is less good at infecting cells,” Pepper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nevada Joint Union High School District Superintendent Brett McFadden expects the vast majority of his students and staff to abide by the forthcoming COVID-19 vaccine mandate from Gov. Gavin Newsom last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also expects around 10 of his employees to quit out of personal or political opposition to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really small number, but the individuals who are upset about it are vocal,” said McFadden, whose district in Nevada County is about 65 miles northwest of Sacramento. “The silent, vast majority of educators are saying, ‘OK, we’ll get vaccinated.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-05/covid-vaccine-mask-fury-shakes-up-california-schools\">small minority of teachers and parents across the state protest vaccine mandates\u003c/a>, one legislator is considering ways to strengthen the new immunization requirement by eliminating a controversial public-health loophole that state lawmakers previously removed for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.shotsforschool.org/\">10 other vaccines California students are required to get\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of these laws is not to make anyone vaccinate their children, it’s to keep schools safe,” said state Sen. 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This means students and staff could opt out of the COVID-19 vaccine for religious or ideological reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process for personal belief exemptions for vaccinations varies across the country for students and employees, according to Dorit Reiss, a UC Hastings law professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some just ask to check a box on a form,” she said. “Others have a different process like submitting a letter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan has long worked to strengthen vaccine rules for students. In 2012, he authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2109\">a law that required parents seeking a personal belief exemption to consult with a medical expert\u003c/a> about the benefits and risks of vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, he co-authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB277\">a law that eliminated the personal belief exemption\u003c/a> for childhood immunizations altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"vaccine-mandates\"]Pan then successfully \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\">tightened regulations on medical exemptions\u003c/a> in 2019 with a bill that required the California Department of Public Health to audit all medical exemptions at schools with immunization rates less than 95%, as well as any doctor who submits more than five medical exemptions per calendar year. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/inside-california-capitol/2019/09/california-legislature-protest-menstrual-blood-ani-vaccine/\">Anti-vaccine protesters opposed the bill.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate revived the issue of the personal belief exemption because the 2015 law requires any immunization requirements issued by the state health department without a vote from the Legislature to include the provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, we were more concerned about routine vaccinations. We were thinking, why have a fight that doesn’t really matter?” Pan said. “The laws that we wrote for school mandates were not written with pandemics in mind. That’s why that provision is in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan says he’ll consider authoring legislation that would eliminate the exemption if COVID-19 cases spike across the state or if districts report a high number of students and staff who abuse this provision to avoid the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A possible bill, Pan said, would require the COVID vaccine to be treated like the 10 required inoculations that don’t allow for a personal belief exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with the personal belief exemption is that if there are too many people who use it, we’ll have schools that are unsafe,” he said. “We need to be sure kids can stay in school and learn and not have to be sent home for two weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics released a statement in support of the mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eradication of smallpox and polio, as well as prevention of meningitis, measles and whooping cough, show that vaccines work,” said chapter Chair Yasuko Fukuda. “New vaccines are developed and evaluated by a long-standing rigorous process to ensure effectiveness and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Martin, executive director of the California Immunization Coalition, a public-health advocacy group, said she understands the concerns of the parents who are hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine, but agrees that the personal belief exemption should be eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The No. 1 reason to eliminate the personal belief exemption is to be consistent,” Martin said. “This vaccine is no riskier than any other vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said her organization will spend the coming months supporting pediatricians and school administrators as they explain the benefits and risks of the COVID-19 vaccine to students and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents are suffering because they really are scared,” she said. “Doctors are really going to need to up their game in terms of taking time and answering their questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Martin has less sympathy for teachers and school staff who refuse to get vaccinated for political reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re not believing in the science or if it’s a political belief, perhaps they need to find other work,” she said. “Perhaps this is going to weed out folks who don’t believe in the science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Teachers Association President E. 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He said when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/08/california-teacher-vaccines-mandate-newsom/\">the governor issued a previous mandate requiring teachers to be vaccinated\u003c/a> or undergo regular testing, many teachers complained, but most came around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ but then they realized they have to pay the rent,” he said. “I might have five or 10 that don’t get vaccinated, and they’ll leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"entry-content\">\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2021/10/student-covid-vaccination-loophole/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health, Keck Medicine and other major hospital systems in California say they are well on their way to meeting Thursday’s deadline for the state’s coronavirus vaccination mandate, with several citing vaccination rates of 90% or higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/08/california-healthcare-vaccinations-mandate/\">California was the first state in the nation to announce that all health care workers must be fully vaccinated.\u003c/a> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-of-the-State-Public-Health-Officer-Health-Care-Worker-Vaccine-Requirement.aspx\">order\u003c/a>, which includes physicians, nurses, technicians, janitors and other workers in hospitals, dialysis centers, doctor’s offices, nursing homes, substance abuse centers and other facilities, remains one of the most stringent in the country. Only limited medical and religious exemptions are allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, state health officials issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-of-the-State-Public-Health-Officer-Adult-Care-Facilities-and-Direct-Care-Worker-Vaccine-Requirement.aspx\">a new order that extended the mandate \u003c/a>to in-home, hospice, disability center and senior center health care workers, but gave them an extra two months to comply, until Nov. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890407,news_11890241,news_11890031\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite predictions that the mandate would cause severe staffing shortages, many major hospitals told CalMatters that they were confident Thursday’s deadline would not disrupt daily operations. Several large hospitals — with the exception of a major provider in San Diego — said they had only small numbers of requests for medical and religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals and other health care facilities, however, are not required to routinely report their employee vaccination or exemption data to the state or the public. They only need to report it \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/AFL-21-34.aspx\">“upon request” from the California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>. That data — if it exists — has not been made public. At the federal level, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospitals-hospital-laboratory-acute-care-facility-data-reporting.pdf\">disclosure of employee vaccination rates remains optional\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Jeff Smith, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\"]‘We anticipate it will be a relatively small number of employees that choose to end their employment as a result of not being vaccinated.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, which issued a company-wide vaccination requirement three days before California’s order was announced in early August, increased employee vaccination 12% in the subsequent six weeks, said spokesperson Marc Brown. About 90% of Kaiser employees were fully vaccinated as of two weeks ago, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a health care provider responsible for the care of more than 12.4 million people, we have a moral obligation to do everything we can to stop this virus,” Brown said. “One of the steps we can take as a health care provider is to ensure our employees and physicians are vaccinated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento and Keck Medicine and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles reported that fewer than 6% of staff remain unvaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipate it will be a relatively small number of employees that choose to end their employment as a result of not being vaccinated,” said Dr. Jeff Smith, Cedars-Sinai’s executive vice president of hospital operations. He said 97% are vaccinated and less than 2% have requested waivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of state data, however, makes it difficult to determine exactly how health facilities are faring, how many exemptions were granted or whether certain regions or sectors of workers are lagging behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente, the largest health provider in the state, said there were “small, regional differences” in employee vaccination rates at its hospitals but declined to specify where.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dignity Health, which operates facilities throughout the Central Valley and in many rural areas of the state, did not specify how many employees were vaccinated, only that the “vast majority” are already vaccinated or plan to be before Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11890443 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"Two nurses in blue scrubs walk up a steep sidewalk outside the ER beside an ambulance parked on the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01-1020x739.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 90% of Kaiser Permanente employees were fully vaccinated as of two weeks ago. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Keck Medicine of USC, 92% of employees are fully vaccinated and only five people have not been vaccinated or sought a religious or medical exemption, according to Felipe Osorno, executive administrator, continuum of care operations and value improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Health — one of the largest providers in Northern California — and UCLA Health in Southern California did not respond to inquiries about meeting the mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some health facilities said the state order, which triggered internal education campaigns, made a big difference in encouraging hesitant employees to get their shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, only 75% of California nurses had been vaccinated and 22% did not plan to get vaccinated, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/work-environment/health-safety/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus/what-you-need-to-know/year-one-covid-19-impact-assessment-survey/\">a survey conducted by the American Nurses Foundation\u003c/a>. The California Nurses Association has supported vaccination but has stopped short of endorsing the mandate, stating “all eligible people should be vaccinated, while respecting the need for medical and religious accommodations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses are among the most highly vaccinated groups at Stanford Health Care, according to David Jones, chief human resources officer. “We have not seen this issue among our nurses. Our nurses are one of our highest vaccinated groups at around 97%,” he said, compared to the 95% all-staff rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses’ opposition to vaccine mandates has become a lightning rod throughout the pandemic, with some people staging \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/vaccine-mandates-spread-protests-follow-spurred-nurses-rcna1654\">protests in California\u003c/a> and across the country. In New York, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/nyregion/vaccine-health-care-workers-mandate.html\">3,000 workers rushed to get vaccinated\u003c/a> one week ahead of the state’s Monday deadline, but lawsuits and worker demonstrations have roiled health systems, forcing state officials to prepare to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/26/1040780961/new-york-health-care-worker-vaccine-mandate-staffing-shortages-national-guard?t=1632942419045\">bring in the National Guard\u003c/a> and other emergency staff should too many remain noncompliant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Felipe Osorno, Keck Medicine\"]‘Earlier we saw lower vaccination rates in cleaning and cafeteria staff, which overlaps with Latino and Black populations significantly.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and federal vaccine mandates have helped close the gap on vaccination disparities among Keck’s health care workers, which mirror those in the general population, Osorno said. About 99% of Keck’s physicians are vaccinated but other employee groups are less likely to be fully vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Earlier we saw lower vaccination rates in cleaning and cafeteria staff, which overlaps with Latino and Black populations significantly,” Osorno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, people who identify as Latino have received 29.8% of vaccines administered (at least one dose of the vaccine) despite making up 39.4% of the vaccine-eligible population. African Americans make up 5.7% of the state’s vaccine-eligible population, but have only received 4.2% of vaccines administered, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccination-progress-data/#progress-by-group\">according to state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That to me is one of the saddest statistics coming out of the pandemic — the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/09/covid-california-deaths/\">continued disparity of vaccination among Blacks and Latinos\u003c/a>,” Osorno said. “Being Latino myself, it’s horrendously painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education campaigns and individual conversations with Keck employees who were concerned about side effects and other issues helped raise the vaccination rate for cleaning staff from 25% to 80%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state order does not apply to dental offices, although they must \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-of-the-State-Public-Health-Officer-Unvaccinated-Workers-In-High-Risk-Settings.aspx\">comply with a previous order\u003c/a> that allows employees to undergo regular COVID-19 testing in lieu of vaccination, the California Dental Association said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Booster shots unlikely to affect mandate — for now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state deadline comes one week after the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html\">authorized Pfizer booster shots\u003c/a> for those who work in high-risk settings, including health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated it would not yet change its definition of “fully vaccinated” to include three shots instead of two, California agencies are monitoring federal recommendations and have released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/Vaccine-Action-Plan.pdf\">statewide vaccination plan\u003c/a>, CaliforniHealth and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are preparing and considering what it will mean for the 2.5 million health care workers in California and looking at how it impacts the requirements for so many of those individuals to be vaccinated,” Ghaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the moment, there are no plans to adjust the statewide vaccination order, according to the California Department of Public Health, especially since those who received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson shots are not eligible for a booster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we’ve heard so far is that boosters would probably be optional,” Osorno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pockets of opposition remain\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In some areas of the state where masking and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-08-26/reopen-san-diego-protests-mask-vaccine-mandates\">vaccination protests\u003c/a> are widespread, hundreds of employees have submitted exemption requests. In San Diego, 700 employees at Sharp HealthCare requested religious waivers and 100 requested medical waivers, according to Executive Vice President Brett McClain. As of two weeks ago, about 88% of Sharp’s staff were fully vaccinated. Down the road at Scripps Health, 571 employees requested waivers, and 93% are fully or partially vaccinated, a spokesperson told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Close to 90% of [requests] right now are generally in the sense of somebody who identifies as Christian … stated around ‘my religion tells me my body is my body, and I control what goes into it,’” McClain said. Waiver requests have also stated religious opposition to the use of stem cells in the creation of vaccines, although the coronavirus vaccine does not contain stem cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are enough holdouts to worry Sharp administrators faced with escalating patient numbers and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/08/california-nurses-shortage/\">dwindling staff due to pandemic-related burnout\u003c/a>. Turnover among some nursing departments has doubled in the past six months, McClain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern is we’ve got about 20,000 employees and we still have about 1,000 employees who have not been vaccinated and have not applied for an exemption,” McClain said. “We’re getting to crunch time for sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those employees have stated they are going to leave the state or leave health care, he said, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/\">President Biden’s sweeping vaccine mandate\u003c/a> for large employers and federal contractors will make it increasingly difficult for the unvaccinated to find alternate employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to be almost every employer in the country,” Keck Medicine’s Osorno said. “This is not just us. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, which issued a company-wide vaccination requirement three days before California’s order was announced in early August, increased employee vaccination 12% in the subsequent six weeks, said spokesperson Marc Brown. About 90% of Kaiser employees were fully vaccinated as of two weeks ago, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a health care provider responsible for the care of more than 12.4 million people, we have a moral obligation to do everything we can to stop this virus,” Brown said. “One of the steps we can take as a health care provider is to ensure our employees and physicians are vaccinated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento and Keck Medicine and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles reported that fewer than 6% of staff remain unvaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipate it will be a relatively small number of employees that choose to end their employment as a result of not being vaccinated,” said Dr. Jeff Smith, Cedars-Sinai’s executive vice president of hospital operations. He said 97% are vaccinated and less than 2% have requested waivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lack of state data, however, makes it difficult to determine exactly how health facilities are faring, how many exemptions were granted or whether certain regions or sectors of workers are lagging behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente, the largest health provider in the state, said there were “small, regional differences” in employee vaccination rates at its hospitals but declined to specify where.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dignity Health, which operates facilities throughout the Central Valley and in many rural areas of the state, did not specify how many employees were vaccinated, only that the “vast majority” are already vaccinated or plan to be before Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11890443 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"Two nurses in blue scrubs walk up a steep sidewalk outside the ER beside an ambulance parked on the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01-1020x739.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/carddeck_healthcaremerger_AW_040920_01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 90% of Kaiser Permanente employees were fully vaccinated as of two weeks ago. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Keck Medicine of USC, 92% of employees are fully vaccinated and only five people have not been vaccinated or sought a religious or medical exemption, according to Felipe Osorno, executive administrator, continuum of care operations and value improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Health — one of the largest providers in Northern California — and UCLA Health in Southern California did not respond to inquiries about meeting the mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some health facilities said the state order, which triggered internal education campaigns, made a big difference in encouraging hesitant employees to get their shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, only 75% of California nurses had been vaccinated and 22% did not plan to get vaccinated, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/work-environment/health-safety/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus/what-you-need-to-know/year-one-covid-19-impact-assessment-survey/\">a survey conducted by the American Nurses Foundation\u003c/a>. The California Nurses Association has supported vaccination but has stopped short of endorsing the mandate, stating “all eligible people should be vaccinated, while respecting the need for medical and religious accommodations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses are among the most highly vaccinated groups at Stanford Health Care, according to David Jones, chief human resources officer. “We have not seen this issue among our nurses. Our nurses are one of our highest vaccinated groups at around 97%,” he said, compared to the 95% all-staff rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses’ opposition to vaccine mandates has become a lightning rod throughout the pandemic, with some people staging \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/vaccine-mandates-spread-protests-follow-spurred-nurses-rcna1654\">protests in California\u003c/a> and across the country. 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In San Diego, 700 employees at Sharp HealthCare requested religious waivers and 100 requested medical waivers, according to Executive Vice President Brett McClain. As of two weeks ago, about 88% of Sharp’s staff were fully vaccinated. Down the road at Scripps Health, 571 employees requested waivers, and 93% are fully or partially vaccinated, a spokesperson told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Close to 90% of [requests] right now are generally in the sense of somebody who identifies as Christian … stated around ‘my religion tells me my body is my body, and I control what goes into it,’” McClain said. 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"content": "\u003cp>More and more employers are ordering workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus without the option of getting tested instead. Now workers are pushing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, D.C., more than 400 fire and emergency medical workers applied for religious exemptions to the city’s vaccine mandate. In Los Angeles, roughly a quarter of the police department is expected to seek religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many of those requests will ultimately be approved is unknown. Already, some employers are taking a harder line than others. Under the law, employers have a lot of discretion when granting religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the answers to some questions that may come up when navigating the process of a religious exemptions. Don’t have time to read the whole guide? Click on the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#obligations\">\u003cstrong>What are employer obligations to workers when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#reasonable\">What does “reasonable” mean when it comes to a reasonable accommodation?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#hardship\">\u003cstrong>What’s considered an undue hardship when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#head\">Does it matter what the head of my religion says about the coronavirus vaccines?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tips\">\u003cstrong>What about all the tips being shared online for getting a religious exemption?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"obligations\">\u003c/a>What are employer obligations to workers when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The right to request a religious exemption stems from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects workers from discrimination on the basis of religion, among other things. 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Their objections were largely based on the employees’ beliefs that vaccines that used fetal cells in research, testing or production should not be put into their bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Public health officials say fetal cell lines developed decades ago in the laboratory were used to develop and test the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, a common practice in pharmaceutical research. Other fetal cell lines are being used in the production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. But the vaccines themselves do not contain any fetal cells.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before granting the religious exemptions, Troup sent the employees a list of 28 commonly used medicines that also used fetal cells in their research, testing or development — a list that includes Tylenol, Motrin, Tums, Ex-Lax and other medicine cabinet staples. 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A handful of United employees have sued, saying unpaid leave is not a reasonable accommodation but rather an adverse employment action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Román Hernández, a labor and employment attorney with Troutman Pepper in Portland, Oregon, says historically, courts have upheld unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation in religious exemption cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably not the accommodation that those workers wanted, but that is something that the employer is providing,” Hernández says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"hardship\">\u003c/a>What’s considered an undue hardship when it comes to religious exemptions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Remember that under the law, employers must provide reasonable accommodations to workers seeking religious exemptions — unless doing so poses an undue hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to look at how the EEOC defines undue hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In religious exemption cases, undue hardship is defined as “more than a \u003cem>de minimis\u003c/em>,” or minimal, cost or burden on the operation of the employer’s business. 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