Covid-19 roundup: Unit­ed be­comes first air­line to re­quire vac­cine for em­ploy­ees; New side ef­fects rec­om­mend­ed to J&J la­bel as EMA in­ves­ti­gates men­stru­al dis­or­der link

If you want to fly a plane for Unit­ed Air­lines, you’ll need to be vac­ci­nat­ed.

That’s the lat­est out of the Chica­go-based air­line, which an­nounced that it will re­quire all 67,000 of its US em­ploy­ees to get the Covid-19 vac­cine by Oct. 25 or risk los­ing their job. The move is a first among US air­lines, who have of­fered in­cen­tives thus far, but hadn’t yet man­dat­ed the jab. Em­ploy­ees must up­load proof that they re­ceived ei­ther two dos­es of the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech or Mod­er­na vac­cine, or one dose of the J&J shot ei­ther five weeks af­ter the drugs are giv­en ap­proval by the FDA, or by that Oc­to­ber cut-off date, CN­BC re­ports. There will be health and re­li­gious ex­emp­tions avail­able.

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