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Post by Admin on Dec 13, 2021 19:02:56 GMT
Debate: Should the government mandate Covid-19 vaccines?
201,889 views • Dec 12, 2021 • Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Asa Hutchinson debate whether the government should mandate the Covid-19 vaccines.
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Post by Admin on Dec 14, 2021 20:35:24 GMT
California is bringing back a rule requiring people to wear masks indoors, a move aimed at containing a new type of the coronavirus as people gather with family and friends during the holidays. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced the new mandate will start Wednesday and last until Jan. 15. The order comes as the per capita rate of new coronavirus cases in California has jumped 47% in the past two weeks. “We know people are tired and  for normalcy. Frankly, I am too,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Monday. “That said, this is a critical time where we have a tool that we know has worked and can work." California lifted its statewide mask mandate on June 15 for people who were vaccinated, a date Newsom heralded as the state's grand reopening. But since then, county governments covering about half of the state's population have imposed their own indoor mask mandates as case rates surged with new variants. The new mask mandate will cover everyone else, but state officials on Monday were unclear about how it would be enforced. Ghaly said enforcement would likely be stronger in some places than others, but he urged Californians to heed the warnings and wear masks. “We know that there's going to be people who don't necessarily agree with this, who are tired, who aren't going to mask,” Ghaly said. “We hope that those are few and far between, that most people see the purpose of doing this over the next month as something to protect them and their communities during a very tough time.” Newsom has issued lots of other coronavirus mandates, including requiring state employees, health care workers and, soon, public school students and teachers to be vaccinated. The governor can do this because California is still operating under an emergency declaration Newsom issued at the beginning of the pandemic. That emergency declaration will remain in place until either Newsom lifts it or the state Legislature votes to end it. |
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Post by Admin on Dec 16, 2021 19:51:30 GMT
The Marine Corps has booted 103 of its members for refusing the Covid vaccine, the service announced on Thursday, even as all the military branches report that a vast majority of troops have gotten the shots. The news comes the same day the Army announced that it has relieved six leaders — including two commanding officers — over the issue, and that almost 4,000 active-duty soldiers have refused the vaccine. The two Army officers, both of whom commanded active-duty battalions, join Navy Cmdr. Lucian Kins, the executive officer of the destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill, who was relieved this month, as the highest-ranking officers to be punished for defying the order.  The Army would not identify the two officers. The moves come as the individual services begin the process of separating what could amount to thousands of troops who refuse the order to be vaccinated, a complicated undertaking that impacts everyone from newly enlisted service members to high-ranking officers in command of hundreds of personnel. The vast majorities of each service have received their shots. The Army and Navy are each at about 98 percent, while the Air Force stands at 97.5 percent and the Marine Corps at 95 percent. Approximately 72 percent of the U.S. population has been vaccinated. The Army announced Thursday that in January it will begin the work of separating soldiers who have refused the order and have already relieved six active-duty leaders, including the two battalion commanders, and issued 2,767 reprimands to soldiers for refusing the vaccination. Those reprimands generally allow a soldier to continue to serve, but are seen as a block to any future promotion, effectively killing a career. The six leaders already removed from their jobs range in rank from sergeant to lieutenant colonel, an Army spokesperson told POLITICO, without offering more detail. |
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2021 13:09:47 GMT
Covid vaccine deadline today for U.S. military
638,020 views • Dec 16, 2021 • NBC's Courtney Kube joins Shep Smith to report on the Covid vaccination deadline for members of the U.S. military.
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Post by Admin on Dec 18, 2021 18:42:37 GMT
U.S. COVID-19 vaccine mandate revived for workers
76,904 views • Dec 19, 2021 • A U.S. appeals court reinstated a nationwide vaccine-or-testing COVID-19 mandate for large businesses, which covers 80 million American workers, prompting opponents to rush to the Supreme Court to ask it to intervene
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for normalcy. Frankly, I am too,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Monday. “That said, this is a critical time where we have a tool that we know has worked and can work."