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To shield vulnerable patients from COVID-19, few people who work in health and long-term care would disagree with the ambition to vaccinate as many of their colleagues as possible. But there remain deep divisions over whether vaccination should be compulsory for staff who are not medically exempt. Share  In a special issue of the  BMJ , academics and a transplant patient debate the pros and cons of mandatory vaccination. “If hospital chefs refuse to comply with new safe food preparation guidance, they have no good reason to expect to continue to be employed,” argues Michael Parker , professor of bioethics at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, in the BMJ. Trusted Source “So too in frontline healthcare roles, staff are rightly required to modify their practice in the light of evidence about patient safety,” he writes. Prof. Parker believes the same principle should apply to COVID-19 vaccination. Stay informed with live updates  on the current COVID-19 outbreak and visit our  coron

  Reviving the  flagging American economy   is one of the major pillars of President Joe Biden’s policy goals. Just a week into his term, Biden has outlined several plans for creating jobs and otherwise improving the lives of workers across the nation. An analysis by Moody's Analyties estimates that Biden’s first major proposal, the American rescue Plan, could create 7.5 million jobs this year, with another 2.5 million jobs in 2022. But Biden has a lot of ground to make up for: the U.S. continues to slowly recover from the pandemic unemployment crisis, with millions of people still out of work or managing a reduced income. More than 40 million workers—about 25% of the entire labor force—lost their jobs last spring, as the economy shut down to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The unemployment rate improved in the summer and fall (as of January 2021, it’s sitting at 6.7%, or about 10.8 million people). But as recently as December 2020, four miliion people had been unemploye