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Two very different versions of a post-COVID-19 pandemic world have emerged in New York state as authorities pursue plans for separating people based on vaccination status in certain circumstances.
For those vaccinated, life will soon once again include jam-packed concerts, fans crammed into baseball stadiums and other raucous celebrations filling large outdoor venues.
For the unvaccinated, however, it will feature occupancy limits at venues and social distance rules that have kept people at least six feet apart to limit the spread of coronavirus over the past year.
The growing divide stemmed from new state directives allowing specialized treatment of vaccinated people. At large outdoor venues, for example, that includes creating special areas without social-distancing requirements for vaccinated attendees, beginning May 19. Mask wearing would still be required at all venues.
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New York state s public colleges and universities will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students taking in-person classes in the fall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
The vaccine mandate for the State University of New York, or SUNY, and City University of New York, or CUNY, systems is the latest development in the dire push to boost vaccination rates that have slowed in recent weeks.
The mandate would be pending the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, granting full approval for COVID-19 vaccines, Cuomo added.
Currently, three COVID-19 vaccines have been granted emergency use authorization, which allows for distribution prior to FDA finalizing a standard review. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Friday became the first to apply for the full approval, but the timeline remains unclear.
A photo from the National Archives of Norway depicts the Armenian leader Papasyan seeing what s left after the horrendous murders near Deir-ez-Zor in 1915-1916. (Image: Bodil Katharine Biørn - National Archives of Norway/Wikipedia)
Just one week prior to his 1939 invasion of Poland and the mass slaughter that followed, Adolf Hitler asked rhetorically, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Such a depraved sentiment indicates why it is so significant that President Joe Biden, this past Saturday, became the first US President to formally classify the persecution committed against the Armenian Christians in Ottoman Turkey from 1915-1923 as “genocide”.
100 U.S. colleges will require vaccinations to attend in-person classes in the fall.
Ohio Wesleyan University is among the colleges requiring students to be fully vaccinated in order to attend in-person classes.Credit.Andrew Spear for The New York Times
By Cierra S. Queen and Jordan Allen
April 29, 2021, 4:59 a.m. ET
More than 100 colleges across the country have said they will require students to receive coronavirus vaccines in order to attend in-person classes in the fall, according to a New York Times survey.
Those requirements come as Covid-19 cases have continued to climb steadily this spring at colleges and universities across the United States. More than 660,000 cases have been linked to the institutions since the start of the pandemic, with one-third of those since Jan. 1.