NPR has the details:
Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline's top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs the airline $40,000.
CEO Ed Bastian said that all employees who have been hospitalized for the virus in recent weeks were not fully vaccinated. …"This surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company," Bastian said in a memo to employees.
The carrot of vaccine incentive payments hasn't worked. Many employers remain too gun-shy to flat out mandate the vaccine, even after the FDA's final Pfizer approval. How about the stick of an unvaxxed penalty? $200 a month is nothing to sneeze at, and will certainly test the limits of one's vaccine hesitancy.