Labor Department officials on Thursday announced a temporary emergency standard to protect health care workers, saying they face "grave danger" in the workplace from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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The Biden administration included only health workers in its new emergency temporary standard, angering labor advocates who had spent more than a year lobbying for the protections.
The move gives states extra time to figure out how to use up excess supply of the single-dose vaccine. Local officials have struggled to use up stockpiles of the shot, which has lately faced sagging demand.