People who opt out of shots shouldn’t expect their employers, health insurers, and fellow citizens to accommodate them. By Juliette Kayyem For months, institutions and companies have been drafting plans to aggressively promote vaccination or require it outright, and last week the FDA gave them license to click the “Send” button. The same day the agency granted full … [Read more...] about Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore
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Delta Is Bad News for Kids
More children are falling ill because more are being infected.By Katherine J. Wu Two and a half weeks ago, as the next school year approached, a pediatric cardiologist from Louisiana headed into the Georgia mountains with her husband, their three young children, and their extended family. It was, in many ways, a fairly pandemic-sanctioned vacation: All nine adults in … [Read more...] about Delta Is Bad News for Kids
Biden administration considers withholding funds and other measures to spur vaccinations
By Annie Linskey and Tyler Pager The Biden administration is considering using federal regulatory powers and the threat of withholding federal funds from institutions to push more Americans to get vaccinated — a huge potential shift in the fight against the virus and a far more muscular approach to getting shots into arms, according to four people familiar … [Read more...] about Biden administration considers withholding funds and other measures to spur vaccinations
CNN fires three employees for coming to work unvaccinated
In company memo, CEO says there is ‘zero tolerance policy’ for reporting to the office without Covid-19 inoculation CNN has fired three employees who violated company policy by coming to work unvaccinated against Covid-19. Jeff Zucker, the media company’s president, told staff members of the firing in a memo sent on Thursday that reminded them that vaccines were … [Read more...] about CNN fires three employees for coming to work unvaccinated
