Some 30% of healthcare personnel who worked at the thousands of hospitals in the United States were still not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of mid-September, according to a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The snapshot in time — January 20, 2021...
Moreover, requesting proof of an employee having received a COVID-19 vaccination, such as by providing a copy of the completed CDC-issued vaccine card or a printout of vaccination status from a health care provider that administered a vaccine, is permissible. This is because such a request, ...
For essential workers such as healthcare providers, the new CDC guidelines will make life harder, Triunfo-Cortez said. "Even worse, sadly we essential workers will now have the added burden of differentiating among vaccinated and unvaccinated people and potentially enforcing uneven masking rules in ...
Separately, U.S. health officials are monitoring thenew strain of COVID-19 emerging in the United Kingdom, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said on Sunday, adding that any mutation shows people must keep protecting themselves from the novel coronavirus while...