The study was done in response to a decree signed by President Rodrigo Chaves and the Minister of Health, which ordered an investigation to support the rulings issued by Daniel Salas, the former Minister of Health.

“The mandatory vaccination of the adult population is not a merely scientific measure, it is also a strategy that helps to increase the coverage of vaccines in the population in groups of workers identified as at risk and those who provide public services, with the aim of to protect the health and safety of the entire population,” the commission said in its statement.

After an analysis made by the commission, they made a series of recommendations to Joselyn Chacón, Minister of Health. Among the most important reasons given by the specialists to continue with the vaccination mandate are:

• If they are not vaccinated, health workers could get covid and die, but they are in charge of caring for covid patients.

• Workers face the risk in their workplaces of being infected with the virus.