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With COVID out of control, Biden unveils hefty vaccine mandates:
President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a sweeping six-pronged plan to try to regain control over the COVID-19 pandemic, which is wildly raging once again in the US.
[...] The main focus of the president's "Path out of the Pandemic" plan is on reducing the number of unvaccinated people in the country. As such, the plan's most prominent elements are hefty vaccination requirements for millions of federal employees, health care workers, school employees, and even employees of private businesses.
Biden signed an executive order Thursday requiring COVID-19 vaccines for millions of federal workers plus millions more federal contractors. The new vaccine mandate eliminates a previous option that allowed federal workers to undergo regular testing in lieu of vaccination.
In addition to mandating vaccines for federal workers, Biden will also require vaccination for over 17 million health care workers who work at facilities that receive federal funding. The administration had previously required vaccination for all staff of federally funded nursing homes. The new requirements will extend vaccine mandates to hospitals, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgical settings, and home health agencies—most facilities that receive Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements.
[...] The administration is also working on a rule—to be implemented through the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration—that will require employers with 100 or more workers to ensure that their workforce is fully vaccinated or submits to regular COVID-19 testing. The rule is expected to apply to over 80 million employees nationwide. OSHA is also working on a separate rule that will require those employers to provide paid time off to get vaccinated.
For schools, Biden will require vaccination for the nearly 300,000 staff in federal Head Start and Early Head start programs. He will also put pressure on governors to get all teachers and school staff vaccinated. Last, the administration will push more schools to implement regular testing, which will be funded by $10 billion the administration already allocated to schools earlier this year.
Also at CNN, www.aljazeera.com
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @11:06AM (4 children)
Thanks for the links.
The first link about why we can't rely on herd immunity with covid was educational and compelling. However your claim that "the vaccines have no meaningful impact on infection or transmission" is not supported by the paper. It could only perhaps be inferred as a possible long-term issue for the unvaccinated. The current strategy of vaccination is optimal for individuals in the short and long term.
The 2nd link, where you suggested it was setting the human race up for disaster, and the 3rd link about causes of mortality --- there is no logical chain of reasoning that justifies what you claim.
My take on this is that we had a population initially that had little immunity to covid before the vaccines. Now we can choose to have immunity. My guess is that natural immunity will develop through childhood exposure, and it will just be like another flu in a generation.
Those who choose to be unvaccinated are not doing anyone a favor, including themselves. But Uncle Darwin doesn't care, he'll gladly take a shot at removing them from the gene pool.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @11:18AM (3 children)
Uncle Darwin says the virus will mutate to avoid the most common immune defence, which is going to be the non-robust one induced by the vaccine.
That is 150 year old science 101. I'll be part of the diverse community, you be part of the monoculture. We have seen how this works out over and over but people still deny the science.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 10 2021, @12:33PM (2 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @03:31PM
Those are all the same except sinovac, which is the entire virus. AZ and Sputnik are missing the double proline mutation they put in the others to prevent cleavage though.
So the most robust immunity to variants will go Sinovac >>> Sputnik/AZ > Pfizer/moderna/JJ
All contribute to the anti-S1 monoculture, but Sinovac exposes the person to natural variations since it is inactivated virus, and AZ/Sputnik allow cleavage which then alliws anti-S2 immunity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10 2021, @04:12PM
The "spike protein sequence the Chinese gave" monoculture.