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Jan 13

Letter of Support for Anthony Fauci

A statement from the scientific and public health communities to the American public in support of Dr. Anthony Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci has served the USA with wisdom and integrity for nearly 40 years. Through HIV, Ebola, and now COVID, he has unswervingly served the United States guiding the country to very successful outcomes. He has our unreserved respect and trust as a scientist and a national leader.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci has provided the American political leadership and the public with sagacious counsel in these most difficult of times. His advice has been as well informed as data and the rapidly evolving circumstances allowed. And importantly, he has given his advice with humility, being clear about what we know and what is unknown, but requires judgment. He has consistently emphasized the importance of mask-wearing, social distancing and vaccination. These are standard and necessary public health measures that we all support.

Scientists can and do express dissenting viewpoints, but a right to an opinion does not mean the opinion is right. We are grateful that Dr. Fauci has consistently stated the science in a way that represents the facts as they emerge, without unwarranted speculation.

Sadly, in these politically polarized times where misinformation contaminates the United States’ response to the pandemic, routine public health measures have become unnecessarily controversial, undermining the effectiveness of our country’s response.

We deplore the personal attacks on Dr. Fauci. The criticism is inaccurate, unscientific, ill-founded in the facts and, increasingly, motivated by partisan politics. It is a distraction from what should be the national focus – working together to finally overcome a pandemic that is killing about 500,000 people a year. We are grateful for Dr. Fauci’s dedication and tireless efforts to help the country through this pandemic and other health crises.

List of signatories

Pamela M. Aaltonen, PhD, RN

Professor Emerita, Purdue University

Past President, American Public Health Association

George M. Abraham, MD, MPH, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP (UK)

Chief of Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital

Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School

President, American College of Physicians (ACP)

Ronald T. Ackermann, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Public Health

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Peter Agre, MD

Nobel Laureate

Sunil K. Ahuja, MD

President's Council/Dielmann Chair for Excellence in Medical Research

Professor of Medicine, Microbiology/Immunology and Biochemistry

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA)

Bruce Alberts, PhD

University of California, San Francisco

President Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences

Lydia Albuquerque, DNP, RN, ACNP-BC, CCRN

President

National Association of Indian Nurses of America ( NAINA)

Harvey Alter, MD

Nobel Laureate

Deverick J. Anderson, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA

Director, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention

Professor of Medicine

Duke University Medical Center

Norma W. Andrews

Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

University of Maryland at College Park

Judith Anesi, MD, MSCE

Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Michael Aptman, MD

University of Miami Medical School - Professor of Neurology on the Voluntary Faculty

Florida International University College of Medicine - Community Based Associate Professor

Sana Arif, MBBS

Duke University Medical Center

Paul G. Auwaerter, MD

Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Professor of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Ferhat Ay, PhD

La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI)

David Baltimore, Ph.D.

Nobel Laureate

President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Biology

California Institute of Technology

Samprit Banerjee, PhD

Weill Medical College, Cornell University

Katharine Bar, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Jillian Baron, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Claudio Basilico, MD

NYU School of Medicine

Ingrid V. Bassett, MD, MPH

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Joel G. Belasco, PhD

Professor, New York University School of Medicine

Paul Berg, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Mandy Brown Belfort, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Harvard Medical School

Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN

University of MS Medical Center and President, APHA

Georges C. Benjamin, MD, MACP

Executive Director

American Public Health Association

Constance A. Benson, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Professor of Medicine

University of California San Diego

Paul Berg

Nobel Laureate, 1980

Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University

Richard E. Besser, MD

President and CEO

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Nahid Bhadelia, MD

Associate Professor

Boston University School of Medicine

Gregory P. Bisson, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Michael S. Blaiss, MD

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

W. Henry Boom MD

Case Western Reserve University

Patrick J. Brennan, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Ron Brookmeyer, PhD

Dean and Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Kristy A. Brown, PhD

Associate Professor of Biochemistry in Medicine

Department of Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

Joan S. Brugge, PhD

Director of the Ludwig Center

Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology

Harvard Medical School

Linda B. Buck, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Adam Burgener, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Global Health and Disease

Case Western Reserve University

Melody Butler, BSN, RN

Founding Executive Director of Nurses Who Vaccinate

David H. Canaday, MD

Professor, Division of Infectious Disease

Case Western Reserve University

Corrado Cancedda MD PhD

Director Botswana University of Pennsylvania Partnership

Strategic Advisor for Academic Partnerships

Center for Global Health

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Lisa M Carlson, MPH, MCHES

Emory School of Medicine

Stephen M. Carpenter, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

Thomas R. Cech, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Eugene K. Cha, MD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Martin Chalfie, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Devidas Chaturbhuj, PhD

Weill Cornell Medicine

Kartik Cherabuddi MD

Hospital Epidemiologist

Associate Professor, Infectious diseases and global medicine

University of Florida

Esther Choo, MD, MPH

Oregon Health & Science University

Andrea Ciaranello, MD, MPH

Massachusetts General Hospital

Robert A. Clark, MD

University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Jennifer Cohn, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Michael Croft, PhD

La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Douglas A. Coulter, Ph.D.

Professor

Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience

University of Pennsylvania

Gary M. Cox, MD

Professor of Medicine

Duke University School of Medicine

Shane Crotty, PhD

Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research

La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI)

James W. Curran, MD, MPH

James W. Curran Dean of Public Health

Rollins School of Public Health

Emory University

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

Dean, Harvard Medical School

Michael Z. David, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Linda C. Degutis, DrPH

Yale School of Public Health

Carlos Del Río, MD

Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

International Secretary for the National Academy of Medicine

Sandra Demaria, MD

Professor of Radiation Oncology

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

Thomas N. Denny, MSc, M.Phil

Professor of Medicine

Chief Operating Officer

Duke Human Vaccine Institute and

Director, Immunology and Virology Quality Assessment Center

Peter Densen, MD

Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Ronald C. Desrosiers, PhD

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Vice Chair of Basic Research

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Lawrence Deyton, MSPH, MD

Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy

Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Public Health

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Kristen Dicks, MD, MPH

Duke Infectious Diseases

Elizabeth Dodds Ashley, PharmD

Professor of Medicine

Duke University School of Medicine

Peter C. Doherty, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Ralf Duerr, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology

NYU School of Medicine

Mark Dybul, MD

Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University

Former Head of PEPFAR and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCh, MD, MPH

Dean, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD

Vice Provost for Global Initiatives

Co-Director, Healthcare Transformation Institute

Levy University Professor

Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

Michael Emerman, PhD

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Joel D. Ernst, MD

University of California, San Francisco

Paul C. Erwin, MD, DrPH

Dean and Professor

School of Public Health

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Amy Lauren Fairchild, PhD, MPH

Dean, College of Public Health

The Ohio State University

Hung Fan, Ph.D

University of California, Irvine

Ferric C. Fang, M.D.

Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Microbiology

Director, Harborview Medical Center Clinical Microbiology Laboratory

University of Washington School of Medicine

Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS

Harvard Medical School

Guido Ferrari, MD

Professor

Duke University Medical Center

Joshua Fierer, MD

Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Pathology

U.C. San Diego School of Medicine

Mark C. Fishman, M.D.

Professor, Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Jeffrey S. Flier, MD

Harvard Medical School

Donald Forthal, MD

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases

University of California, Irvine

Vance G. Fowler, Jr., MD, MHS

Duke University School of Medicine

Ian Frank, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Joachim Frank , PhD

Nobel Laureate

Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH

Dean, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

Director, Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center

Harvey Friedman, MD

Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease

University of Pennsylvania

Senator Bill Frist, MD

Former Majority Leader, U.S. Senate

Terry Fulmer PhD, RN, FAAN

President

The John A. Hartford Foundation

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH

Dean

Robert A Knox Professor

School of Public Health

Boston University

Julio Gallego-Delgado, PhD

Assistant Professor

City University of New York-Lehman College

Rajesh T. Gandhi, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Bruce Gellin, MD, MPH

Chief, Global Public Health Strategy

The Rockefeller Foundation

Walter Gilbert, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Wayne H Giles, MD, MS

Dean, School of Public Health

University of Illinois

Lynn R. Goldman, MD, MS, MPH

Dean

George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health

Douglas Golenbock, M.D.

The Neil and Margery Blacklow Chair in Infectious Diseases and Immunology

Professor and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology

UMass Chan Medical School

Todd R. Golub, M.D.

Director

Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases

Georgetown University

Former Chief Scientist, US FDA

Bernice Grafstein, PhD

Vincent & Brooke Astor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience

Weill Cornell Medical College

Carol W. Greider, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Erin Grinshteyn, PhD

University of San Francisco

Barbara M. Gripshover, MD

Division of Infectious Disease and HIV Medicine

Professor of Medicine

Case Western Reserve

Robert Gross MD MSCE

Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Epidemiology

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Beatrice H. Hahn, MD

Professor, Depts of Medicine and Microbiology

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Jeffrey Connor Hall, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Perry N Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH

Dean, Rutgers School of Public Health

Carol D. Hamilton, MD., MHS

Professor of Medicine, Emerita

Duke University, Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases

John Hamilton MD

Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Duke University

C. William Hanson III MD

Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Surgery and Internal Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Barton F. Haynes, M.D.

Director, Duke Human Vaccine Institute

Ted Hendershot, MD

Associate Professor

Duke University School of Medicine

Dudley R. Herschbach, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Martin S. Hirsch, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

Massachusetts General Hospital

Roald Hoffmann, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Lauren M. Hook, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease

University of Pennsylvania

Thomas J. Hope, PhD

Feinberg School of Medicine

Northwestern University

H. Robert Horvitz, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Peter W. Hunt, MD

Professor of Medicine

University of California San Francisco

Eric Hunter, Ph.D.

Professor, Emory University

Louis J. Ignarro, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Stuart N. Isaacs, MD

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Akiko Iwasaki, PhD

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology

Yale University School of Medicine

Tyler Jacks, PhD

David H. Koch (1962) Professor of Biology

MIT

Donna M. Jacobsen

Executive Director/President

International Antiviral (formerly AIDS) Society-USA

Jeffrey M. Jacobson, MD

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Steven Joffe, MD, MPH (he/him)

Art and Ilene Penn Professor

Interim Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Chief, Division of Medical Ethics

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Mallory O. Johnson, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him/his)

Professor of Medicine and Community Health Systems

Interim Chief, Division of Prevention Science | University of California, San Francisco

Co-Director, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)

Co-Director, UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

David Julius, PhD

Nobel Laureate

William G. Kaelin Jr., MD

Nobel Laureate

Professor, Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Jonathan Karn, PhD

Reinberger Professor and Chair

Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Brendan J. Kelly, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Marc Kirschner, PhD

John Enders University Professor

Harvard University

Scott G. Kitchen, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Director, UCLA Humanized Mouse Core Laboratory

Division of Hematology/Oncology

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

P. J. Klasse, MD, PhD

Professor of Research in Microbiology and Immunology

Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Weill Cornell Medicine

Bob Kocher, MD

Stanford University

Wayne C. Koff, Ph.D.

President and CEO of the Human Vaccines Project

Dept of Epidemiology in the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.

Bette Korber, PhD

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Hardy Kornfeld, MD

UMass Chan Medical School

Alysa Krain MD, MSc

University of Pennsylvania Health System

Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE

Robert Austrian Professor of Medicine

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD

Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair

Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey MD

Professor Emerita

University of Pennsylvania

Thuy Le, MD, PhD

Duke University School of Medicine

Michael M. Lederman, MD

Professor of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

Robert J Lefkowitz MD

2012 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

HHMI, Duke University Medical Center

Jeffrey Levi, PhD

Professor of Health Policy and Management

Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University

Stuart M. Levitz, M.D.

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Physiological Systems

UMass Chan Medical School

Barry S. Levy, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

Marsha L. Lewis, PhD, RN, FAAN

Dean and Professor

School of Nursing

University at Buffalo

Dan Littman, MD, PhD

NYU School of Medicine

Past President, American Association of Immunologists

Andrew W. Lo, PhD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vincent Lo Re, MD, MSCE

Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania

Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH

George Washington University School of Medicine and

Harvard Medical School

Boris D Lushniak, MD, MPH

Dean, School of Public Health

University of Maryland

Ellen J. MacKenzie, PhD

Dean

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Roderick MacKinnon, MD

Nobel Laureate

Syra Madad, DHSc

Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Laura Magana, PhD

President & CEO, ASPPH

Patricia D. Mail, PhD

Retired USPHS & APHA Past President

Lucinda Maine, PhD, RPh

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN

CEO & President

National League for Nursing

Ryan C. Marable, PharmD

President

National Pharmaceutical Association

Allyn L. Mark, MD

Jeffrey L Marsh, MD

Retired, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis University School of Medicine

Ariela Marshall, MD

Director, Women’s Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Penn Medicine/University of Pennsylvania

Ross McKinney, MD

Chief Scientific Officer

Association of American Medical Colleges

C. James McKnight, PhD

Boston University School of Medicine

Daniel P. McQuillen, MD

President, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Director, Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Disease

Beth Israel Lahey Health - Lahey Hospital & Medical Center

Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Maxwell Mehlman, JD

Distinguished University Professor, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law

Co-Director, The Law-Medicine Center

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Professor of Bioethics

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Craig C. Mello, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Douglas A. Melton, PhD

Xander University Professor

Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Julia A. Messina, MD

Duke University School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Harvard Medical School

David Michaels, PhD

Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University

William E. Moerner, PhD

Nobel Laureate

David C. Montefiori, Ph.D.

Duke University Medical Center

John P. Moore, PhD

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Weill Cornell Medical College

Julie Morita, MD

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Sushmita Mukherjee, PhD, MS

Associate Professor of Research in Biochemistry

Weill Cornell Medicine

Ferid Murad, MD, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Kathleen M Murphy, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Aviva Must, Ph.D.

Morton A. Madoff Professor and Chair

Dept. of Public Health & Community Medicine

Dean, Public Health & Professional Degree Programs

Tufts University School of Medicine

Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine

Duke University School of Medicine

Carl Nathan, MD

Weill Cornell Medicine

Jones Nauseef, M.D., Ph.D.

Weill Cornell Medicine

William M. Nauseef, MD

University of Iowa

Douglas Nixon, MD, PhD

Professor of Immunology in Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

Weill Cornell Medicine

Anne H Norris, MD

Perelman School of Medicine

Richard P. Novick, MD

Recanati Family Professor of Science, Emeritus

Member, National Academy of Sciences

Departments of Microbiology and Medicine

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Michel C Nussenzweig, MD, PhD

Zanvil A Cohn and Ralph M Steinman Professor

HHMI Investigator

The Rockefeller University

Judith A. O’Donnell, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

John O'Keefe, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

Yale School of Medicine

Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

Yale School of Public Health

Michael T. Osterholm PhD, MPH

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

University of Minnesota

Julie Overbaugh, PhD

Professor of Human Biology

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Michael N. Oxman, MD

Professor of Medicine and Pathology (Emeritus)

University of California, San Diego

Peter Palese, PhD

Horace W. Goldsmith Professor and Chair

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ardem Patapoutian, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Federico Perez, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

John R. Perfect, MD

Duke University

Brad H. Pollock, PhD

UC Davis School of Medicine

Gary M., Pollack, PhD

Dean, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

University at Buffalo

Saskia Popescu, PhD, MPH, MA, CIC

Assistant Professor, Biodefense Program- Schar School of Policy and Government

George Mason University

Bali Pulendran, PhD

Stanford University

Sanjay Ram, MBBS

Professor of Medicine

UMass Chan Medical School

Megan L. Ranney MD, MPH

Academic Dean

School of Public Health, Brown University

Angela L. Rasmussen, PhD

Research Scientist

Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO)

University of Saskatchewan

Garth K. Reynolds, BSPharm, RPh, MBA

Executive Director

Illinois Pharmacists Association

Charles M. Rice, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Harvey Rubin, MD, PhD

University of Pennsylvania

Irwin Redlener, MD

Senior Research Scholar

Columbia University

Clinical Professor

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Garth K. Reynolds, BSPharm, RPh, MBA

Executive Director

Illinois Pharmacists Association

Douglas D. Richman, MD

University of California San Diego

Director, The HIV Institute

Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH, Dean

Alumni Distinguished Professor

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, MACP

President & CEO

National Hispanic Medical Association

Richard J. Roberts

New England Biolabs

Nobel Laureate

Ana Rodriguez, PhD

Professor

Department of Microbiology

New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, FACP, FAMWA

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Assistant Director of Community & Population Health

AU/UGA Medical Partnership

Michael Rosbash, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Lanny J. Rosenwasser, MD

Past President, WAO, AAAAI

Adjoint Professor of Medicine, Allergy /Immunology

University of Colorado School of Medicine

James E. Rothman, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Nils-Petter Rudqvist, PhD

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Michael S. Saag, MD

Jim Straley Chair in AIDS Research

Director, UAB Center for AIDS Research

Professor of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Manish Sagar, MD

Boston University, School of Medicine

Susan Samuels, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Pediatrics

Weill Cornell Medicine

Randy W. Schekman, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Dr. Robert J. Schneider, PhD

Albert Sabin Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Stephen P. Schoenberger, Ph.D.

La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Robert T. Schooley, MD

Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health

University of California, San Diego

Richard R. Schrock, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Mindy Schuster, MD

Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Gregg L. Semenza, MD, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Bert L. Semler, PhD

University of California, Irvine

Phillip A. Sharp, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Melvin D. Shipp, OD, MPH, DrPH, DOS (h.c.)

Former Dean and Professor Emeritus

College of Optometry

The Ohio State University

Past President, American Public Health Association

William R. Short, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Associate Director of the HIV Clinical Trials Unit

Associate Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Robert F. Siliciano MD Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Mark Siedner MD MPH

Associate Professor

Harvard Medical School

David J. Skorton, MD

President and CEO

Association of American Medical College

George P. Smith, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Alfred Sommer, MD, MPH

University Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Jack Stapleton, MD

Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases

Depts. of Internal Medicine & Microbiology and Immunology

Director, Levitt Center for Viral Pathogenesis

University of Iowa

Mario Stevenson, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Director, Institute of AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases

University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Sir James Fraser Stoddart, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Jason Stout, MD

Professor of Medicine

Duke University Medical Center

John L Sullivan, MD

Professor of Molecular Medicine

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Jack W. Szostak, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Steve M Taylor MD MPH

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases & Global Health

Duke University

Benjamin tenOever, PhD

Professor of Microbiology

Professor of Medicine

Director of the Virology Institute of NYU

New York University

Shirley Tilghman, PhD

Princeton University

Hagen Tilgner, Ph.D.

Weill Cornell Medicine

Georgia Tomaras, PhD

Professor, Duke University

Susumu Tonegawa, PhD

Nobel Laureate

Eric Topol, MD

Executive Vice-President and Professor, Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research

Founder and Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute

Jessie Torgersen, MD, MHS, MSCE

Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Ephraim L. Tsalik, MD MHS PhD, FIDSA

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine

Duke University School of Medicine

Judy Tung, MD

Associate Dean, Faculty Development

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Chief, Section of Ambulatory Internal Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC

Nannette Turner, PhD, MPH

Associate Dean, Mercer Health Sciences Center

Nicholas A. Turner, MD, MHSc

Duke University School of Medicine

Paul J. (P.J.) Utz, MD

Professor of Medicine

Associate Dean for Medical Student Research

Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection

Stanford University School of Medicine

Harold Varmus, MD

Nobel Laureate

Weill Cornell Medicine

Gregory Viglianti, PhD

Boston University School of Medicine

Jan Vilcek, MD, PhD

Emeritus Professor and Research Professor

NYU Langone Health

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Rachel Villanueva, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

122nd President, National Medical Association

Theresa Vincent, PhD

New York University Grossman school of Medicine

Robert M. Wachter, MD

University of California, San Francisco

Andrew Ward, PhD

Professor

The Scripps Research Institute

Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD

Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor

University at Buffalo

David I Watkins, PhD

Director of Translational Research

Professor of Pathology

George Washington University Medical School

Robert M Weiler, PhD,

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

George Mason University

Alan M. Weinstein, MD

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

M. Stanley Whittingham, DPhil

Nobel Laureate

Michelle A. Williams, ScD

Dean of the Faculty

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Ian A. Wilson, D.Phil., DSc

Professor and Chair

Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology

The Scripps Research Institute

Kenneth H. Wilson, MD

Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Duke University Medical Center

Christopher W. Woods, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Global Health

Duke University

Rebekah H. Wrenn, PharmD, BCIDP

Duke University Hospital

Vivien Yap, M.D.

Weill Cornell Medicine

Stuart Youngner

Professor Emeritus of Bioethics

Department of Bioethics

Case Western Reserve University

Jerome A. Zack, PhD

Distinguished Professor

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

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Jul 26 '21

Joint Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for All Workers in Health and Long-Term Care

Joint Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for All Workers in Health and Long-Term Care

Due to the recent COVID-19 surge and the availability of safe and effective vaccines, our health care organizations and societies advocate that all health care and long-term care employers require their workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This is the logical fulfillment of the ethical commitment of all health care workers to put patients as well as residents of long-term care facilities first and take all steps necessary to ensure their health and well-being.

Because of highly contagious variants, including the Delta variant, and significant numbers of unvaccinated people, COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are once again rising throughout the United States.1 Vaccination is the primary way to put the pandemic behind us and avoid the return of stringent public health measures.

Unfortunately, many health care and long-term care personnel remain unvaccinated. As we move towards full FDA approval of the currently available vaccines, all health care workers should get vaccinated for their own health, and to protect their colleagues, families, residents of long-term care facilities and patients. This is especially necessary to protect those who are vulnerable, including unvaccinated children and the immunocompromised. Indeed, this is why many health care and long-term care organizations already require vaccinations for influenza, hepatitis B, and pertussis.

We call for all health care and long-term care employers to require their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

We stand with the growing number of experts and institutions that support the requirement for universal vaccination of health workers.2,3 While we recognize some workers cannot be vaccinated because of identified medical reasons and should be exempted from a mandate, they constitute a small minority of all workers. Employers should consider any applicable state laws on a case-by-case basis.

Existing COVID-19 vaccine mandates have proven effective.4,5 Simultaneously, we recognize the historical mistrust of health care institutions, including among many in our own health care workforce. We must continue to address workers’ concerns, engage with marginalized populations, and work with trusted messengers to improve vaccine acceptance.

As the health care community leads the way in requiring vaccines for our employees, we hope all other employers across the country will follow our lead and implement effective policies to encourage vaccination. The health and safety of U.S. workers, families, communities, and the nation depends on it.

SIGNATORIES

(Listed Alphabetically)

Academy of Neonatal Nursing (ANN)

Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP)

American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN)

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI)

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

American Academy of Nursing (AAN)

American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)

American Academy of PAs (AAPA)

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE)

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)

American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)

American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN)

American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC)

American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI)

American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST)

American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE)

American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)

American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)

American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)

American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)

American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT)

American College of Mohs Surgery (ACMS)

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)

American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP)

American College of Physicians (ACP)

American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM)

American College of Surgeons (ACS)

American Epilepsy Society (AES)

American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

American Geriatrics Society (AGS)

American Medical Association (AMA)

American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)

American Nurses Association (ANA)

American Nurses Association - Illinois (ANA - Illinois)

American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)

American Osteopathic Association (AOA)

American Pharmacists Association (APhA)

American Psychiatric Association (APA)

American Psychological Association (APA)

American Public Health Association (APHA)

American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)

American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)

American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT)

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)

American Society of Hematology (ASH)

American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD)

Association for Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON)

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)

Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC)

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN)

Connecticut Nurses Association (CNA)

Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS)

Delaware Nurses Association (DNA)

Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA)

Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)

Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA)

HIV Medicine Association

Illinois Pharmacists Association (IPhA)

Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

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Medical Society of Virginia (MSV)

Missouri State Medical Association (MSMA)

National Association of Indian Nurses of America (NAINA)

National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP)

National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP)

National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)

National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)

National League for Nursing (NLN)

National Medical Association (NMA)

National Pharmaceutical Association (NPhA)

New Hampshire Medical Society (NHMS)

New Hampshire Nurses Association (NHNA)

New Mexico Medical Society (NMMS)

Nurses Who Vaccinate (NWV)

Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN)

Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS)

Philippine Nurses Association of America, Inc (PNAA)

Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (SEMPA)

Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO)

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)

Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)

Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP)

Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)

South Carolina Nurses Association (SCNA)

Texas Nurses Association (TNA)

The John A. Hartford Foundation

Transcultural Nursing Society (TCNS)

Vermont Medica Society (VMS)

Virgin Islands State Nurses Association (VISNA)

Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN)

When referring to this statement, please cite:
Emanuel EJ and Skorton DJ. Mandating COVID-19 Vaccinations for Health Care Workers. Ann Intern Med. Published online July 30, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7326/M21-3150

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Covid Data Tracker Weekly Review. July 16, 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html [Accessed 22 July 2021].
Weber, D., Al-Tawfiq, J., Babcock, H., Bryant, K., Drees, M., Elshaboury, R., et al. (2021). Multisociety Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination as a Condition of Employment for Healthcare Personnel. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1-46. doi:10.1017/ice.2021.322
American Hospital Association. AHA Policy Statement on Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination of Health Care Personnel. July 21, 2021. https://www.aha.org/public-comments/2021-07-21-aha-policy-statement-mandatory-covid-19-vaccination-health-care
Bacon J. ‘Condition of employment’: Hospitals in DC, across the nation follow Houston Methodist in requiring vaccination for workers. USA Today. Available from: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/06/10/dc-hospitals-others-follow-houston-methodist-requiring-vaccination/7633481002/ [Accessed 22 July 2021].
Paulin E. More Nursing Homes Are Requiring Staff COVID-19 Vaccinations. AARP. Available from: https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/health/info-2021/nursing-homes-covid-vaccine-mandate.html [Accessed 22 July 2021].

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