What is coming is that individual organizations, universities, businesses and hospitals will institute mandates. Doing so has already crossed a bar in some courts. Therefore, it is likely to become much more widespread in the immediate months ahead as we move into the fall months and infection rates go even higher from where they are today, over 50,000 cases a day.
Treatments in hospitals are keeping deaths lower than at the beginning of the pandemic, but at what cost in time, resources and staffing?
Once the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provides full approval for the vaccines that are being used now, the mandatory aspect of vaccinations within individual organizations will go way up — for example, consider the military.
There is an article in the NY Times today about a new aspect of the pandemic: vaccinated people expressing anger and frustration with those who refuse to get vaccinated. I’ve got some of those feelings myself.
