Felicia Scaggs Huang, Qing Duan, Abraham Araya, Anna Sheets, Joshua K Schaffzin
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Abstract
Absenteeism from infections has a significant impact on the health care workforce. We found that COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment reduced absenteeism in health care personnel until February 2022 when absences became higher in vaccinated than unvaccinated health care personnel. Maintaining a COVID-19 vaccine mandate is challenging given changing epidemiology.
期刊介绍:
AJIC covers key topics and issues in infection control and epidemiology. Infection control professionals, including physicians, nurses, and epidemiologists, rely on AJIC for peer-reviewed articles covering clinical topics as well as original research. As the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)