ROCHESTER, Minn. – The question remains whether Mayo Clinic will enforce its mandate for employee to be CoVid-vaccinated or be dismissed. The clinic has a January 3 deadline for its 63,000 employees, mostly in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It’s estimated that 5,900 employees have chosen not to vaccinate themselves. There has been pressure on Mayo from 38 state lawmakers, mostly Republicans and anti-vaxxers, to back off the mandate. The concern is that Mayo may lose a critical number of essential employees at time when hospital are stressed with new CoVid cases. Mayo’s position has been that vaccinations are essential to slow CoVid infections throughout the society.
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Peggy Bennett, Republican, state representative from Albert Lea. in a KIMT interview: “This is not a sterilizing vaccine like the measles, the mumps, the polio vaccine. It doesn’t kill the virus. It allows the virus to live in the vaccinated as well as the unvaccinated and pass it on so that’s why it doesn’t make sense to me. I am not anti-vaccine. I understand that this vaccination has helped some people not get as sick. I think that’s wonderful and it’s a good choice for some people to make, but people need that choice.”