US veterans department becomes first agency to adopt vaccine mandate
published : 27 Jul 2021 at 06:45
1 US President Joe Biden looks at a dose of vaccine before its administered at a Covid-19 vaccination site at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington
WASHINGTON - The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said Monday its more than 100,000 health care personnel would have to get Covid-19 shots, becoming the first federal agency to institute a mandate as California and New York City announced new vaccine requirements affecting workers.
President Joe Biden s administration had previously been reluctant to support such measures, but is now confronted with a Delta variant-driven surge that is sweeping mainly through America s tens of millions of unvaccinated.
As Covid surges, more US Republicans urging vaccinations
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23/07/2021 - 03:50 As US Covid infections soar once again and millions of Republicans remain skeptical about vaccinations, members of the House GOP Doctors Caucus stressed to anyone who would listen that vaccines are safe and effective ALEX WONG GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP 4 min
Washington (AFP)
With Delta variant infections spiking across the United States, growing numbers of Republican officials and lawmakers have joined the chorus of support for coronavirus vaccinations, swatting aside conspiracies that have left millions of Americans unprotected.
Covid-19 deaths and hospitalization rates are rising nationwide, with the vast majority of new fatalities and serious cases among the unvaccinated.
July 23, 2021
We may have walked on the Moon and sent probes across the solar system, but we know very little about what s going on inside other planets. Now, for the first time, we have been able to view the interior of one, thanks to Nasa s Mars InSight probe. The probe, which landed in 2018, is equipped with a solar-powered lander bristling with equipment, including a seismometer (a very sensitive vibration detector).
The results, published in three studies in Science, throw up some unexpected findings about Mars s interior, including a very large core.
Though Mars has no tectonic plates, the first “marsquakes were detected within months of the probe landing. These may result from vibrations caused by meteorites hitting the surface or from processes inside the planet.