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Mon Nov 8, 2021, 01:24 PM Nov 2021

Vaccine-Mandate Debate Makes It to Top Federal Research Agency

The vaccine mandate debate has made it to Dr. Fauci's own workplace. One of his top scientists isn't vaccinated and says mandates are wrong.



POLITICS | HEALTH POLICY

Vaccine-Mandate Debate Makes It to Top Federal Research Agency

The NIH, where Dr. Anthony Fauci works, has scheduled a seminar on the ethics of mandates, featuring a senior researcher who is pushing back

The National Institutes of Health has scheduled a Dec. 1 live-streamed roundtable session over the ethics of vaccine mandates.

By Jenny Strasburg
https://twitter.com/jennystrasburg
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Nov. 7, 2021 7:00 am ET

The debate over vaccine mandates is surfacing in an unlikely venue: The National Institutes of Health.

The sprawling federal research agency has led government efforts studying and battling Covid-19, including funding the development and testing of vaccines. Anthony Fauci, a top NIH scientist, has been a public face of the Biden administration’s case for wider vaccine mandates, including a federal one affecting the NIH’s own staff.

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