Dr. Ashish Jha explains why he thinks employer vaccination mandates for employees are so helpful in the fight against Covid.
"People don't want to change jobs, people don't want to be inconvenienced," said Jha on CNBC's ""I do think a vast majority of people who are unvaccinated will end up getting vaccinated with these things. I know they're seen as mandates, I see them as absolutely essential for creating safe work environments.
The president also mandated that roughly 17 million workers at healthcare facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid to be fully vaccinated. Additionally, all federal employees and contractors who do business with the executive branch must now be fully vaccinated. Previously, federal workers had a choice of undergoing regular testing instead of getting vaccinated.
Jha told host Shepard Smith that he, "would not want to be in an enclosed office with a bunch of unvaccinated people, I think that would be unnecessarily dangerous."
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