Religious Exemption To Vaccines: Who Wants Them And What’s Legal

Religious Exemption To Vaccines: Who Wants Them And What’s Legal
Religious Exemption To Vaccines: Who Wants Them And What’s Legal

Religious Exemption To Vaccines: Who Wants Them And What’s Legal

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Some city and state workers around the country have already begun to resist workplace vaccination rules on religious grounds. Soon those rules will be the norm in the private sector too, with the Biden administration’s announcement this month that businesses with 100 or more employees must require those employees to be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing.

NPR correspondents Andrea Hsu and Shannon Bond explain what the law says about religious exemptions to vaccine rules in the workplace.

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