“While Mayo Clinic is saddened to lose valuable employees, we need to take all steps necessary to keep our patients, workforce, visitors, and communities safe. 3 deadline at all the Mayo Clinic’s locations, according to the statement. Nearly 99% of employees met the program’s Jan. The Mayo Clinic has 73,000 employees, according to its website.Ĭomplying with the program means receiving at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and not being overdue for a second dose if taking the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine. “This is a time when Mayo Clinic must stand firmly behind the evidence supporting the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines to help protect the health and safety of our patients, workforce, visitors, and communities,” it said in the statement. The health system said “the needs of the patient come first” in a statement emailed to CNN. The Mayo Clinic said 1% of its employees have been terminated for not complying with its required Covid-19 vaccination program.

Of those hospitalized with Covid-19, 76% of them are not vaccinated, Kanter said at the news conference. “What is not captured on our Covid dashboard currently are reinfections, which we are seeing more of because of the Omicron variant than we saw before.” The average daily incidence of Covid has exceeded its Delta surge peak across the state of Louisiana,” the governor said. “The percentage of emergency department visits related to Covid-like illness remains at an all-time high. Some context: There are 1,412 people hospitalized across the state of Louisiana with Covid-19, an increase of 125 since Wednesday, the governor said. That's the safest thing to do right now.” “When you're in a surge like we are right now and Covid is everywhere- and it is everywhere right now- if you have trouble getting a test, a take-home test particularly, and you do have symptoms, the prudent thing to do is just assume you have Covid and isolate away from other people. “If someone is looking for an antigen test, a take-home test, and they can't find it, but they have symptoms, in the context of the surge we're in right now, they should just assume that they have Covid and isolate accordingly,” Kanter said. The agency notes that data on people who are fully vaccinated and those with a booster dose may be underestimated, while data on people with at least one dose may be overestimated. Note: CDC data on Covid-19 vaccinations are estimates. The pace of booster dose administration ticked up amid the Omicron variant’s early initial spread but has since trailed off.About 23% of the total US population is now fully vaccinated and boosted.About 73 million people have received a booster dose.Only about 304,000 people are initiating vaccination each day.Most doses being administered – about 597,000 – are booster doses.Current pace of vaccinations (7-day average): 1,072,127 doses are being administered each day.Not vaccinated: at least 21.3% of the eligible population (age 5+) has not received any dose of Covid-19 vaccine, at least 66 million people.In five states, at least three-quarters of the population is fully vaccinated: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont.In four states, less than half of the population is fully vaccinated: Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi and Wyoming.

Fully vaccinated: 62.4% of the total US population (all ages), about 207 million people.

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