The vast majority of the nation’s small businesses have not required their employees to get COVID-19 vaccines or tests to return to work, although there were significant differences across sectors, a government survey shows. The U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Business Pulse Survey, released last week and based on data collected from some 25,000 respondents from Feb. 15-21, sought to measure the impact on small businesses of changing operating conditions amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Besides questions on how overall business has been affected by the pandemic, the survey also asked whether the business required its workers to test negative for COVID-19 and whether employees were required to provide proof of vaccination before physically coming to work. On testing, 70.1 percent of businesses nationwide said they did not require a negative test, 10 percent said yes, while 19.9 percent replied “not applicable, this business did not have employees physically coming to work …
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