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At least 5% of unvaccinated adult Americans have QUIT their jobs over workplace vaccine...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By ALYSSA GUZMAN

At least five per cent of Americans have chosen to quit their jobs rather than get the COVID-19 vaccine as part of their workplace mandates, a new poll has found.  

The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) polled 1,519 adults from October 14 to October 24 on vaccination trends, from getting their children vaccinated to asking if they'd leave their job over vaccine mandates. 

The KFF reported that five per cent of unvaccinated adults polled have left their jobs due to a vaccine mandate. 

The study also found that 37 per cent of unvaccinated adults - who account for said they would leave their job if their employer required a vaccine or weekly testing. 

The figure increases to 72 percent if weekly testing is not an option.   

Early last month, the Biden Administration announced a plan to direct the Department of Labor to enforce all businesses with over 100 employees to get vaccinated or tested weekly. 

The plan could leave businesses facing expensive fees for every unvaccinated employee or force companies to fire their workers. 

Biden also signed an executive order earlier this year requiring all government employees and those who contracted to do government work must be vaccinated and do not have the option to test weekly. 

In addition, teachers and healthcare workers receiving federal money from the Head Start program or Medicare and Medicaid, respectively, would also have to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. 

'The mandates are working,' Biden said during a CNN town hall last week. 

Since vaccine mandates started going into effect, the workers surveyed reported that vaccine requirements have jumped from nine per cent of employers in June to 25 per cent this month. 

The study also found that workers coming from a $90,000 or more household were more likely to experience vaccine mandates from their employers than those living in a $40,000 or less household. 

Of the 1,500 polled, 36 per cent of those who identified as a Democrat reported their employer required vaccination, while Republicans polled only reported 17 per cent.