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Per senior administration officials, President Biden will unveil a list of new rules and recommendations to fight the #COVID19 pandemic in his 5pm ET speech from the White House.
Details in this thread ⤵️
Per senior administration officials, President Biden will unveil a list of new rules and recommendations to fight the #COVID19 pandemic in his 5pm ET speech from the White House.
Details in this thread ⤵️
New rule:
- The Labor Department is developing a rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure workers are vaccinated or tested at least weekly
- Employers who don't abide could face monetary fines
- A timeframe will be released in the coming weeks
- The Labor Department is developing a rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure workers are vaccinated or tested at least weekly
- Employers who don't abide could face monetary fines
- A timeframe will be released in the coming weeks
New rule:
- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees to provide time off to get vaccinated or recover post-vaccine
- A timeframe will be released in the coming weeks
- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees to provide time off to get vaccinated or recover post-vaccine
- A timeframe will be released in the coming weeks
New vaccine requirements coming for:
- All federal government workers
- All contractors doing business with the gov't
- 17+ million health care workers at Medicare/Medicaid participating hospitals
- Staff at Head Start Programs, DoD Schools, Bureau of Indian Education schools
- All federal government workers
- All contractors doing business with the gov't
- 17+ million health care workers at Medicare/Medicaid participating hospitals
- Staff at Head Start Programs, DoD Schools, Bureau of Indian Education schools
New vaccine requirements (cont'd):
- There will be limited exemptions for religious or medical reasons
- Those eligible who don't get vaccinated will go through an HR process
- There will be limited exemptions for religious or medical reasons
- Those eligible who don't get vaccinated will go through an HR process
Biden is calling on:
- Entertainment venues to require vaccines or negative test for entry
- Schools to set up regular testing for students and staff
- All states to require vaccines for school employees (9 states, DC, and Puerto Rico already do)
- Entertainment venues to require vaccines or negative test for entry
- Schools to set up regular testing for students and staff
- All states to require vaccines for school employees (9 states, DC, and Puerto Rico already do)
Biden administration will:
- Provide more $ for schools to reopen and stay open
- Continue requiring masks for travel and on federal property; TSA fines will double for violations
- Expand access to Monoclonal Antibody Treatment and increase access to testing
- Provide more $ for schools to reopen and stay open
- Continue requiring masks for travel and on federal property; TSA fines will double for violations
- Expand access to Monoclonal Antibody Treatment and increase access to testing
Biden Admin:
- Almost 80 million Americans eligible are still not vaccinated
- Biden will announce additional steps in coming weeks
- Goal is to still start offering booster shots the week of 9/20, if FDA signs off; this could lead to updated definition of 'fully vaccinated'
- Almost 80 million Americans eligible are still not vaccinated
- Biden will announce additional steps in coming weeks
- Goal is to still start offering booster shots the week of 9/20, if FDA signs off; this could lead to updated definition of 'fully vaccinated'
The White House has built a new microsite outlining President Biden's "Path out of the Pandemic #COVID19 Action Plan"
whitehouse.gov/covidplan/
whitehouse.gov/covidplan/
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