KEY POINTS
  • Companies are considering compulsory Covid vaccination requirements as a condition of employment.
  • "Under the law, an employer can force an employee to get vaccinated, and if they don't, fire them," said Rogge Dunn, a Dallas labor and employment attorney.
  • Anti-discrimination laws would enable eligible employees to request an exemption from a company-wide coronavirus vaccine mandate.

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The country's first Covid vaccine could be authorized for emergency use as soon as Thursday. If Pfizer and BioNTech get the green light, distribution is set to begin within days.

But as difficult as the research, development and distribution stages have been, some experts argue the hardest part of fighting the virus is actually what comes next: convincing the U.S. population to take the vaccine.

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