This podcast is a visit with Texas A&M system vice chancellor Laylan Copelin and WTAW's Bill Oliver about the system starting to alert employees about what to expect with the president's mandatory pandemic vaccination order.

Thanks to a WTAW listener who sent us an e-mail notifying us the A&M system will be requiring pandemic vaccinations to meet the president's executive order.

System vice chancellor Laylan Copelin tells WTAW News the requirement applies only to those associated with federal contracts and their worksite locations.

The president's order states that of December 8, affected employees must show proof of vaccination, getting a vaccination, or request a medical or religious exemption.

Copelin says the system's notification will come as a federal contract begins or is renewed.

The mandate applies to the A&M system because it has 500 federal contracts that are valued at almost $2 billion dollars.