Eli Lil­ly joins the grow­ing ranks of Big Phar­ma play­ers man­dat­ing vac­ci­na­tions for most staffers

You can add Eli Lil­ly to the grow­ing ranks of Big Phar­ma com­pa­nies re­quir­ing staff to get vac­ci­nat­ed.

Lil­ly put out the word Thurs­day af­ter­noon in an email to End­points News:

To­day, we an­nounced that Lil­ly will re­quire COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion for all em­ploy­ees in the Unit­ed States and Puer­to Ri­co, ef­fec­tive No­vem­ber 15. Em­ploy­ee re­quests for med­ical or re­li­gious ac­com­mo­da­tions will be con­sid­ered on an in­di­vid­ual ba­sis. Our top pri­or­i­ty dur­ing this pan­dem­ic has been to pro­tect the health and safe­ty of our em­ploy­ees and en­sure busi­ness con­ti­nu­ity – to­day’s de­ci­sion re­flects that com­mit­ment. As a sci­ence-based com­pa­ny, we have thor­ough­ly re­viewed all the da­ta and op­tions avail­able to us. We be­lieve this de­ci­sion helps keep our em­ploy­ees, fam­i­lies and cus­tomers safe and healthy, and en­sures we can con­tin­ue mak­ing life-sav­ing med­i­cines for peo­ple around the world.

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