Over 96% of the more than 29,500 people employed by Maryland’s largest state-based medical system have been vaccinated against Covid-19. The remaining 4% will have to get their shots soon, or risk losing their jobs.
University of Maryland Medical System announced Friday that the vast majority of its workers, including 98% of its full and part-time clinical staff, met the system’s vaccine mandate deadline of Oct. 1. UMMS is among several major local employers and health systems that opted to require coronavirus vaccinations as a condition of employment, amid the ongoing pandemic and recent surges of Covid-19 infections related to the Delta variant of the virus. The remaining 4% of staff who remain unvaccinated will have about another month to comply with the mandate, said Michael Schwartzberg, a UMMS spokesperson.
“If they still are not compliant in 30 days, we will consider them as having resigned,” he said.
The health system said it will continue to work with the employees who are…
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