Vaccine requirements at businesses and colleges are “very reasonable”

• U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy supports COVID-19 vaccine requirements in businesses and colleges.
• “I think it’s a very reasonable thing to do to create a safe environment,” he told CNN.
• Murthy said the rise of the Delta variant makes it imperative to focus on the safety of schoolchildren.

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said on Sunday that the COVID-19 vaccine requirements that have been developed by businesses and colleges are “a very reasonable thing to do,” as the Food and Drug Administration is on the verge of dying. ‘fully endorse the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the coming days.

During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Murthy had no reservations about the use of such health warrants in the workplace and in the classroom.

“We already know that there are many companies and universities that have turned to vaccine requirements and I think it is a very reasonable thing to do to create a safe environment,” he said. .

Murthy also supported the demands for school employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

“There is another thing that I think we need to do that some states have done to create a safer school environment, and that requires that school employees, including teachers and other staff, are also vaccinated to create a safer environment for our children, ”he said.

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With the highly infectious Delta variant spread across the United States, Murthy said it was imperative to focus on the safety of children.

“I think this is all reasonable because when we’re faced with the most transmissible variant we’ve seen to date, the Delta variant,” he said. “When we have our children, that’s basically the area of ​​concern here in our schools and their health and well-being at stake, we have to take whatever action we can.”

“I think these measures, these demands that we see are absolutely reasonable,” he said. “I think they will help.”

Murthy, who served as a general surgeon in the Obama administration and now under President Joe Biden, said the impending FDA announcement of full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will push more people to receive their vaccines and influence more businesses and workplaces. proceed with the application of the requirements.

Since the start of the pandemic in the United States, nearly 37.7 million people have been infected with the virus, according to the latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.