As U.S. heads toward coronavirus vaccine approval, operators enter uncharted territory
With a COVID-19 vaccine expected to come online within weeks, restaurant operators are wrestling with whether to make vaccinations in the workplace mandatory or voluntary, which like most of the pandemic is uncharted territory.
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committees will consider emergency-use authorization at meetings Dec. 10 on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and Dec. 17 on the Moderna Inc. vaccine. Coronavirus vaccinations began in the United Kingdom on Tuesday.
Groups are pressing to make sure foodservice workers, on the frontlines in many essential capacities, are among the first groups to be be allowed access to the COVID-19 vaccines.
The National Restaurant Association joined 14 other food-related trade groups in a Nov. ...
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