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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,837 posts)
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 07:06 PM Jul 2021

As Delta variant spreads, so do vaccine mandates

Spurred by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, new cases of COVID-19 have risen in the U.S. by 170 percent over the last two weeks. Accompanying that rise, which is expected to continue to worsen heading into the fall, a slew of new vaccine mandates are being enacted across the country.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that it will require 115,000 of its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated over the next two months.

“Yes, Veterans Affairs is going to in fact require that all docs working in facilities are going to have to be vaccinated,” President Biden told reporters Monday in the Oval Office.

With less than 50 percent of the U.S. population having been fully inoculated against COVID-19, several hospital systems nationwide have instituted similar policies requiring employees to be vaccinated or face termination.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-delta-variant-spreads-so-do-vaccine-mandates/ar-AAMAgqW?li=BBnb7Kz

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As Delta variant spreads, so do vaccine mandates (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2021 OP
Good I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2021 #1
We need a national vaccination database. roamer65 Jul 2021 #2
A vaccine passport would simplify a lot spinbaby Jul 2021 #3
if unvaxxed masks should be mandatory rdking647 Jul 2021 #4
Waiting for the Gamma or Lambda variant to start populating. LiberalArkie Jul 2021 #5
They might figure out the truth when family members die sellitman Jul 2021 #6

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,462 posts)
1. Good
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 07:27 PM
Jul 2021

Bring on the corona vaccination passports too because the honor system always fails when dishonorable narcissistic people will lie and endanger others lives.

spinbaby

(15,088 posts)
3. A vaccine passport would simplify a lot
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 08:05 PM
Jul 2021

On my recent trip out of the country, covid testing cost me $485 and untold inconvenience. That I was vaccinated counted for nothing.

 

rdking647

(5,113 posts)
4. if unvaxxed masks should be mandatory
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 08:41 PM
Jul 2021

if unmasked and unvaxxed in public you should be quarantined for 14 days. if you break the quarantine then 30 days in jail.

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