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.
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And replace them with what? We need to be restricted and forced against our will to do something!!
Interesting timing.
The stats involving vaxxed healthcare workers must be horrific...
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.
And replace them with what? We need to be restricted and forced against our will to do something!!
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The next plandemic.
“...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.
🔬🦠🤔😵💫🚫💉😷🐃💩
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.
Some doctor offices where we are no longer enforce masks. Hospitals do.
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