Researchers around the world are working at record speed to find the best ways to treat and prevent COVID-19. In this fifth episode of our podcast series on COVID-19, Michael Ward, MoFo partner and global head of the firm's Life Sciences Group and Patent Group, discusses with Janie Schulman, employment and labor partner in our Los Angeles office as well as a key member of the firm's COVID-19 task force, how the availability of the vaccine may impact the workforce, including compliance requirements, employer/employee rights, and whether employers can mandate employees must be vaccinated.

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