Faced with vaccine hesitancy among players, the NFL put its foot down.
“We know that vaccines are safe and effective and are the best step anyone can take to be safe from the coronavirus,” the memo states., the league had instituted strict rules for testing and social distancing rules to guard against outbreaks.
There were also heavy penalties, financial and competitive, on teams for breaching league protocols. Most recent NFL vaccine info: 91.7 percent of all players have at least one dose of the vaccine. 15 teams have more than 95 percent of players vaccinated. Lots of focus on the hesitant and resistant, but these numbers are high.Even before the memo’s release, the NFL was seeing its vaccination rates on the upswing: Almost all the teams had reached 100% vaccination among their top level staff and more than 78% of all players had had at least one shot, with 14 teams having reached an 85% rate. All 32 teams had reached at least a 50% player vaccination rate., but we’re not satisfied,” the league’s chief medical officer, Allen Sills, said on the league’s “NFL Today” broadcast the day of the memo’s release. “We want to see them continue to go up.” The league’s action places the spotlight on vaccine holdouts among the players, and could create a quandary for coaches: A second-rank player or benchwarmer who refuses the shot can be cut for chump change, but starters may be a different story. One is Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins, who has said that vaccination is a “private matter” but has indicated that he hasn’t had the shot. His stance has caused
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