Tens of millions of Americans remain unvaccinated against COVID-19. For many, their stance on the vaccine may cost them their paychecks. Read more from jaweedkaleem and kurtisalee at
For eight years, Mike Miller has patrolled the grounds of the Snake River Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison in east Oregon. His $74,000 salary has paid for his home across the state line in Boise, Idaho, and allowed his family to home-school their three kids.
But in public sector jobs in blue states such as Oregon, and at dozens of major private corporations, mandates remain in place as leaders point to studies showing the effectiveness of vaccines in fighting off the worst infections. Lawsuits have been filed across the country as teachers, nurses, police and prison workers try to ward off what they see as unconstitutional overreach.
Vaccine opponents have been criticized — and sometimes mocked — for ignoring science and endangering the country’s health through a series of coronavirus surges. To many, they are irresponsible and selfish. But people like Miller, an iconoclast with a frontier pragmatism, see themselves as being forced to accept a vaccine that runs counter to their religious beliefs, distrust of pharmaceutical companies and their suspicions about scientific consensus.
As top scientists declare that COVID-19 will be around for the long run, the movement against vaccines — once seen as fringe — has gained strength. Even among vaccinated Americans, just 40% have received booster shots. It comes at a time when the Omicron surge shows signs of easing and many across the country, especially the vaccinated, are revving, perhaps prematurely, to return to pre-pandemic lifestyles.
“This was rushed,” Davy said of the vaccines, which have been thoroughly tested and approved by the United States and other governments around the world. “The pharmaceutical companies are getting richer, and we will now have to have boosters forever, it seems.” “Now, here I am being mandated to do something?” Davy said. “Whatever happened, truly, to my body was my choice?”
Workplaces have treated exemptions differently, with some providing paid or unpaid leave to unvaccinated employees and others, including Nike and Columbia Sportswear, saying those who are not exempted from mandates will be fired. Some have put unvaccinated workers on test-to-work policies and asked them to mask up. Others have left unvaccinated parts of the workforce to stay remote indefinitely.
“They showed some promise in the beginning. But then you look at data coming out, and people with vaccinations are also getting Omicron,” she said. Data that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this week said that although “breakthrough” infections happen, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are 90% effective at keeping infected people from hospitalization.
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