Dr Nick Coatsworth is urging corporations to 'rethink' jab mandates, arguing vaccination does not reduce the transmissibility of the Omicron variant and Australians of working age are less likely to become severely ill from COVID-19.
‘No public health rationale’: Australia’s former deputy chief health officer Dr Nick Coatsworth calls for workplaces to ditch COVID-19 vaccine mandates
“Mandates have a role but it’s very early on when you need to protect as many lives as possible when there are too many unknown unknowns." A range of business still have a"no jab, no pay" policy in place, including Coles, Woolworths, Qantas, Virgin Australia and Commonwealth Bank. “But the contagiousness of Omicron has overwhelmed that, so you couldn’t have a workplace safety reason for having a vaccine mandate because it simply doesn’t reduce the risk of vaccinated co-workers getting the virus so that’s out the window.
“We know these new subvariants are more infectious and we do see reduced protection both from vaccination as well as from recent infection," he told Sky News on Monday.
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