To date, more than 3,500 organizations, including universities, healthcare systems, private companies, and state and municipal governments, have mandated COVID-19 vaccines for employees, a move Zients said results in an average of 90% of employees taking the vaccine.

Zients said mandates have raised the vaccination rates in the United States up by 20% in recent weeks. He also said 77% of all Americans age 12 and older have now gotten at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

Airlines to maintain federal mandate

But vaccine mandates have become the latest political football in the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday Texas-based American Airlines and Southwest Airlines said they would comply with the federal mandate that will require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, Reuters reports.

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