Various large firms in the US have decided to make it mandatory for their staff to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, drugstore chain CVS Health and oil company Chevron are among the first to shift from strongly recommending that their employees get inoculated to mandating vaccination, with the US Food and Drug Administration having recently authorised the marketing of vaccines across the country. A survey conducted by consulting firm Mercer indicates that 14% of US companies require or plan to require all employees coming to their worksites to be vaccinated.
In what was a long-awaited decision, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced at the end of August that it has approved the Pfizer vaccine, removing any doubts that some may have had about the emergency approval granted in December 2020. Several universities and hospitals have taken advantage of the announcement to set vaccination deadlines for their staff, with a handful of private firms having also jumped on board. Goldman Sachs has told its 20,000 employees that they must be vaccinat
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