Speak Up: Delaware’s Beebe Healthcare to require staff vaccinations for COVID-19

Beebe Healthcare has said it will require all unvaccinated team members, contractors and vendors to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 by Dec. 24. The Biden administration, along with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, announced a policy Thursday, requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for all eligible staff at health care facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Beebe said these requirements apply to its team members.

• Sounds good to me. Maybe I will feel safer going for my doctor’s ordered test to be done. — Sallie Rolph

• I didn’t realize that vaccines were now a federal law. Last I heard, it was a mandate. Big difference. — Ginny Fowler Kiser

• The medical field is already short-staffed. This is going to put a strain on it. Even more ridiculous. — Deanna Dennison

• It is not a federal law. — Margaret Mclaughlin