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US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week
The White House ^ | May 1, 2023 | ZEKE MILLER

Posted on 05/02/2023 4:23:27 AM PDT by fluorescence

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday.

Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11. The government is also beginning the process of lifting shot requirements for Head Start educators, healthcare workers, and noncitizens at U.S. land borders.

The requirements are among the last vestiges of some of the more coercive measures taken by the federal government to promote vaccination as the deadly virus raged, and their end marks the latest display of how President Joe Biden's administration is moving to treat COVID-19 as a routine, endemic illness.

“While I believe that these vaccine mandates had a tremendous beneficial impact, we are now at a point where we think that it makes a lot of sense to pull these requirements down,” White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told The Associated Press on Monday.

Deeply polarizing at the time and the subject of numerous legal challenges — many of which were successful — the vaccination requirements were imposed by Biden in successive waves in late 2022 as the nation’s vaccination rate plateaued even amid the emergence of new, more transmissible variants of COVID-19.

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Mandates remain for many employees of the National Institutes of Health, Indian Health Service and Department of Veterans Affairs — which implemented their own requirements for healthcare staff and others independent of the White House — will remain while those agencies review their own requirements, the administration said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: covid; covid19; covidvaccines; mandate; mandates; vaccines

1 posted on 05/02/2023 4:23:27 AM PDT by fluorescence
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To: fluorescence

And replace them with what? We need to be restricted and forced against our will to do something!!


2 posted on 05/02/2023 4:26:40 AM PDT by albie
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To: fluorescence

Interesting timing.

The stats involving vaxxed healthcare workers must be horrific...


3 posted on 05/02/2023 4:42:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla
Related...

Proof: The FDA knew on September 17, 2021 that people who got the COVID vaccine were 2X more likely to be infected

Folks might want to pay special attention to the bits about healthcare workers. And ask themselves just why it is that nobody has ever seemed curious about nosocomial spread of the coof by vaxxed HCWs. Or about nosocomial spread in general by people with compromised immune system.

And then there's the safety of nation's blood supply. Maybe someone will start addressing that soon.

And what percentage of cases, after the vaxxes were released, were due to nosocomial spread in healthcare and residential care settings?

Inquiring minds want to know.

4 posted on 05/02/2023 4:44:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: albie
Nuremberg II - punish the insidious oppressors
5 posted on 05/02/2023 4:44:56 AM PDT by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: albie

And replace them with what? We need to be restricted and forced against our will to do something!!
.................

The next plandemic.


6 posted on 05/02/2023 5:05:13 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: mewzilla
[Proof: The FDA knew on September 17, 2021 that people who got the COVID vaccine were 2X more likely to be infected]

Fauci: I know nothing!!!!!!!!!!! /Sgt. Schulze


7 posted on 05/02/2023 5:20:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: fluorescence

“...The government is also beginning the process of lifting shot requirements...” Process of lifting? Guess a memo saying “VAX NO LONGER REQUIRED!” isn’t enough then? I wonder if the VA will still require the stoopid masks.

🔬🦠🤔😵‍💫🚫💉😷🐃💩


8 posted on 05/02/2023 5:39:37 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Masks still required in doctor’s offices.

I attend furry Conventions. All, including one in early July in Pittsburgh, still require vaccinations and boosters or a negative test (same day testing available for a fee). Masks also must be worn though
“Speakers/hosts may remove their masks if they maintain sufficient distance from the audience.”

So when I conduct a panel on classic cartoons, I can get away without one.

Masks are not required at my job (USPS)
but some still wear them.
Covid 19. But it’s ‘23.


9 posted on 05/02/2023 7:18:49 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Some doctor offices where we are no longer enforce masks. Hospitals do.


10 posted on 05/02/2023 7:22:48 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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