Thread by @DrEricDing

BREAKING— California will require all school teachers and staff to have proof of #COVID19 vaccination or be tested weekly. It’s the first state to do so. Mandates gain momentum both among public and private employers amid #DeltaVariant surge. #vaccinate
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2) Many large companies, including Google, Disney, Tyson Foods and Microsoft, have announced some vaccination requirements for workers who would be returning to offices and plants.

3) While initially California officials emphasized they were merely encouraging everyone to get vaccinated, the governor announced late last month that the state would require health care workers and state government employees to be inoculated or be tested at least weekly.

4) we definitely need this. Both school masks mandates and vaccines for teachers. #DeltaVariant is very severe and more severe than before. We need to protect kids. See this video and thread 🧵 below.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1425265716580831235

5)@rweingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, now expresses her strongest support to date for mandatory vaccination of educators, saying that she would urge her union’s leadership to reconsider its position against vaccine mandates.
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6) “It’s not a new thing to have immunizations in schools,” Ms. Weingarten said on “Meet the Press.” “And I think that on a personal matter, as a matter of personal conscience, I think that we need to be working with our employers, not opposing them, on vaccine mandates.”