This Job Is Most Likely to Require Vaccination

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This Job Is Most Likely to Require Vaccination

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Just two months ago, it appeared that COVID-19 cases in the United States were waning. The spread of the Delta variant has changed that. Daily new cases have risen above 150,000, a level last posted at the start of the year, during the tremendous third wave of the disease. Fatal cases recently topped 1,000 a day.

It is easy to forget how hard the United States has been hit, compared to the balance of the world, since the start of the pandemic. The U.S. total of confirmed cases reached 38,780,564 on Wednesday, which is about 18% of the world’s number. This is despite large outbreaks in some of the world’s most populous nations, including Brazil, India, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. American fatal cases as of Wednesday numbered 642,743, or about 15% of the world’s total. On top of that, New York State has just added about 12,000 to its official death count since the start of the pandemic.

The factors that have helped partially stanch the spread of the disease are vaccination, wearing masks and social distancing. Currently, 63% of Americans over the age of 18 are fully vaccinated. However, that number varies widely from state to state, a problem that has led to aggressive outbreaks. The vaccination rate is well below 50% in Alabama, Mississippi and West Virginia. In some counties within the states, the number is much lower.

For its research report titled “The Jobs Most Likely to Require Covid Vaccination,” Zippia looked at about 3 million job openings at its jobs site. As part of the methodology, “Each job listing that mentioned, ‘vaccine’ or ‘vaccination’ was counted as requiring vaccination.”
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The job title most likely to mention vaccination was “warehouse team member.” Here are the top 20:

  1. Warehouse team member
  2. Warehouse worker
  3. Picker and Packer
  4. Sorter
  5. Warehouse attendant
  6. Registered Nurse
  7. Licensed Practical Nurse
  8. Warehouse assistant
  9. Material Handler/Warehouse
  10. Certified Nursing Assistant
  11. Ship Worker
  12. Medical Assistant
  13. Package Handler
  14. Cook
  15. Truck Driver Class A
  16. Phlebotomist
  17. Veterinarian
  18. Senior Specialist
  19. Home Health Aid
  20. Warehouse Operations Manager

Click here to see how many people have died from COVID-19 in each state.
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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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