Day: July 27, 2021

  • VACCINE MANDATE FOR FEDS!

    VACCINE MANDATE FOR FEDS!

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    BIDEN AND DOJ MAKE THE CALL: Vaccines for federal workers or submit to tests 

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    President Joe Biden will announce on Thursday a requirement that all federal employees and contractors be vaccinated against Covid-19, or be required to submit to regular testing and mitigation requirements, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

    The announcement will come in remarks where Biden is also expected to lay out a series of new steps, including incentives, in an attempt to spur new vaccinations as the Delta variant spreads rapidly throughout the country. It will also follow the decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs to require its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated over the course of the next two months

  • COVID-21: MASK UP!

    COVID-21: MASK UP!

    THE C.D.C. WILL RECOMMEND THAT SOME VACCINATED PEOPLE WEAR MASKS INDOORS AGAIN. →

    The C.D.C.’s initial guidance in May said people fully protected from the coronavirus could go mask-free indoors, but recommended that unvaccinated people still wear masks. Those recommendations drew sharp criticism from some experts, who said it was premature given the vast swaths of unvaccinated people in the country.

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    Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C.’s director, at the time pointed to two scientific findings as significant factors. Few vaccinated people become infected with the virus, and transmission seems rarer still, she noted; and the vaccines appear to be effective against all known variants of the coronavirus.

    This new guidance is a reverse from previous reversals of reversals and guidance.

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