Biden told bosses: Make workers get vaccine. Here's what Boise-area employers are doing [View all]

The rising tally of COVID-19 cases — along with comparatively low vaccination rates — have forced Boise-area employers to consider mandating vaccinations to help return normalcy in the workplace.

President Joe Biden asked employers to mandate vaccinations on Aug. 23, the day the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to the Pfizer vaccine.

“If you’re a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state or local leader who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccinations, I call on you now to do that — require it,” Biden said in nationally broadcast remarks. “Do what I did last month and require your employees to get vaccinated.”

Even before then, Idaho’s two largest health systems, St. Luke’s and Saint Alphonsus, and the Boise area’s largest medical-clinic business, Primary Health, announced plans to require workers to get the shot. Some Idaho nursing homes had, too. St. Luke’s, a nonprofit, is Idaho’s largest private-sector employer.

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