Covid Vaccine Mandates at Hospitals to Soar on Pfizer Approval

Covid-19 vaccination mandates for health-care workers will take off now that the FDA has fully approved a vaccine, Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s, hospital leaders say.

Vaccine mandates were already expected to “spread like wildfire” before the Food and Drug Administration’s approval as hospitals and states gained confidence in their legality, said Steven Michaud, president of the Maine Hospital Association. The approval will make hospital leaders more comfortable requiring the shot for their staffs, protecting patients and the workforce as infections surge from the delta variant.

Roughly 35% of hospitals currently mandate vaccination for their staffs, according to the American ...