In November we asked for thoughts from people who work in the industry and from employers about the challenges posed by vaccination. Would people get the vaccine? Could employers insist on it?
Now the vaccines are here and decisions must be made about what is right for individuals. “I will definitely get vaccinated as soon as I am able,” the chairman of a big Midwestern A-E firm told us in the autumn. He said he found vaccine hesitancy, as it is called, perplexing, since it meant that people are resisting a method of protecting themselves and their families. “In fact,” he continued, when at a clinic to get a COVID test, “my nurse wasn’t sure she would get vaccinated. These are the very people that are giving us healthcare guidance!”