In their Datawatch article, Golos and coauthors determine that in the long-term care network examined, "post announcement vaccination rates significantly increased compared with preannouncement trends…"
They also find that following the announcement of the vaccine mandate, non-Hispanic Black employees, those employed in states with mandates for state long-term care employees (among other
groups), had significantly higher odds of vaccination.
Ultimately, 56.2 percent of those employees who were unvaccinated before the mandate announcement subsequently were vaccinated, while 20.9 percent were terminated due to noncompliance with the mandate.
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