President Biden has thrown down the gaunlet….
Some Federal employee’s MUST get vaccinated …
Businesses with over 100 employee’s also….
The courts have backed the President except in some Red states….
Virus completions are now reported to be almost 54% of the American public…..
A small percentage of break thru infections for those vaccinated have been reported….
Added to the vaccine scuffles are the mask mandate’s….
Increasingly things seem to be turning to be a political tussle in addition to a health one.….
Including conflicts on booster shots….
The one good thing IS that ‘reported’ virus cases and virus hospital stays CONTINUE to decrease from their peek in the first days of this (Sept 2021) month….
The CDC isn’t polling too well these days…..
School’s are back in-session and school administrators will again be dealing with daily virus positives among students…..
Wash Post…
Among reported tests, the positivity rate was 8.9%.
The number of tests reported fell 12.5% from the previous week.
Since Dec. 14, more than 380,241,000 doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the U.S.
More than 178,692,000 people have completed vaccination, or about 53.82% of the population.
Read more in our vaccination tracker….
Note….
Overall?
Things DO seem to be better….
But they are FAR from over….
But it appears that America and the rest of the world is NOT going back to total shutdowns….
Broadway Shows NYC reopens…..
The reopening isn’t just a reason for theater fans to rejoice, but it’s also responsible for spurring close to 97,000 local jobs through the industry and supporting subsidiaries….
More…
Vaccine for Kids Could Come Before Halloween
The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine “has been shown to be safe and highly effective in young children aged 5 to 11 years,” the New York Times reports.
“Children now account for more than one in five new cases, and the highly contagious Delta variant has sent more children into hospitals and intensive care units in the past few weeks than at any other time in the pandemic… If the regulatory review goes as smoothly as it did for older children and adults, millions of elementary school students could be inoculated before Halloween.”
Travel update…
The White House on Monday said it would revoke its travel ban on visitors from 33 countries, which was implemented to quell the spread of covid-19.
Foreign nationals flying to the United States will be required to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus when the policy takes effect in early November, said White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients.
Vaccinated travelers will also have to test negative for the virus within three days of departure, and unvaccinated Americans returning to the United States will be required to test negative within one day of leaving and again after arriving….
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Biden will get booster shot on camera….