Wed Sep 15, 2021 – 3:07 pm EDTWed Sep 15, 2021 – 6:25 am EDT
ATLANTA, Georgia (LifeSiteNews) — The cost of refusing the COVID-19 jab has proved too high for many employees of the world’s second largest airline.
As reported by The Hill Monday, thousands of Delta Air Lines employees were pressured into getting the shot after the company declared it was imposing a $200 monthly healthcare surcharge for unvaccinated workers enrolled in the company’s account-based healthcare plan.
The corporation has already instituted a policy mandating the jabs for all new hires.
In a media briefing with the Infectious Diseases Society of America on Thursday, Delta Air Lines chief health officer Dr. Henry Ting said that just two weeks after Delta announced its new policy, about 4,000 (or 20%) of its remaining unvaccinated workforce got the injection.
Roughly 16,000 unvaccinated Delta employees have thus far held out.
To avoid the surcharge, employees must either get the shot or obtain a medical or religious exemption. There do not appear to be any carve-outs for those who have already attained natural immunity to COVID-19.
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