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My MIL is in a nursing home. She moved there March 2, 2020, just 2 weeks before the facility was out on lock down. No one there, residents or staff, were forced to get the vaccine. I believe the percentage of residents who got it is in the neighborhood of 80%+, not sure of the staff. I believe it was in the 60% range.
I think, but am not positive, because the approval of the vaccines is under "emergency use" and they don't have "full" approval, employers can't make them mandatory. One of my BIL's is a nurse, and the flu vaccine is mandatory where he works at a VA Clinic. He assumes the covid vaccines will eventually be mandatory for health care workers. He did get his in the first wave of medical workers, as did his wife, who teaches in a private school.
There are religious exemptions for students who don't get the normal childhood vaccines. I know several families who are anti-vaccers, and their kids go to private and public schools.
I know the schools my kids went to, a mix of private and public, never fussed about my daughter's missing pertussis/whooping cough vaccines. She reacted badly to her first DPT, so only got the DT in the rest of the shots.
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