Gilead joins the move­ment to man­date staff vac­ci­na­tions against Covid-19. And it looks like the rest of the in­dus­try is fol­low­ing

Five days af­ter Pfiz­er said it would re­quire all US staffers to get vac­ci­nat­ed against Covid-19, an­oth­er big bio­phar­ma play­er is fol­low­ing suit.

Gilead put out a state­ment say­ing it too will man­date vac­ci­na­tions, set­ting up an Oct. 1 dead­line for em­ploy­ees to get the jab wher­ev­er it’s al­lowed by law and vac­cines are in ready sup­ply. Ex­cep­tions to the rule will be con­sid­ered.

For those em­ploy­ees with re­li­gious be­liefs or med­ical con­di­tions that pre­vent them from get­ting vac­ci­nat­ed, we will of­fer an ap­pro­pri­ate ac­com­mo­da­tions re­view process. Where it is not pos­si­ble or prac­ti­cal to man­date vac­ci­na­tion, the com­pa­ny will strong­ly rec­om­mend that em­ploy­ees get vac­ci­nat­ed.

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