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Spectrum Health to require COVID-19 vaccine for employees - WOODTV.com
Jul 28, 2021 54 secs
(WOOD) — Spectrum Health is going to require the COVID-19 vaccine for all of its employees once the FDA approves it, the West Michigan-based hospital system announced Wednesday.

The policy will require all team members, medical staff, students, volunteers and contractors get the vaccine, it said in a release.

The shots will be required within eight weeks of the FDA granting full approval to one of the COVID-19 vaccines, it said.

It may act more quickly if it sees a heightened risk to public and employee health as a result of COVID-19 variants.

Almost all people who contract COVID-19 and need hospitalization or die from the virus are unvaccinated,” Liam Sullivan, DO, infectious disease specialist with Spectrum Health said in the release.

Across the state of Michigan, about 63% of all residents age 16 and up have gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

In an effort to reach that goal, state health officials have partnered with Meijer to host a sweepstakes giving away some $5 million in cash prizes and scholarships to those who get at least one dose.

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