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Has been acquired since late november unless an exemption is granted, and the mandate expands to other activities as of today for cambridge public schools. cps is requiring all students aged 12 plus to be fully vaccinated in order to participate in before and after school activities, including athletics, clubs, visual and performing arts programs, and school sponsored social events. some districts announce mandates as early as last summer, like new york city, which declared in august that vaccin...

Days. dr. anthony boucher says he expects as early as this week that cdc may add a testing option to those recommendations. >> there has been some concern about why we dont ask people at that 5-day period to get tested. that is something that is now under consideration. the cdc is very much aware that there has been some pushback about that. >> the highly infectious omicron variant is driving a near vertical surge in new covid infections averaging 400,000 cases per day in the u.s. hospitalizatio...

These steps now. why did he take them three months ago? >> let me first say that what weve been working to implement is building on the steps weve taken the last six months and more. remember when the president took office, there were zero or one approved at-home testing option on the market. now theres nine. we needed to expand the market capacity. the defense use the defense production act to expand that market. the reason he announced the plan to purchase an additional 500 million beyond the ...

Is requiring healthcare workers to get boosted with no testing option. >> reporter: los angeles just hit a pandemic record of new daily covid cases, and now california is joining at least 23 other states in activating the national guard to help. many hospitals across the nation are canceling surgeries that are not emergencies. and starting today, new york hospitals, 40 in total, 40 total new york hospitals, are having to push nonessential procedures for at least two weeks. irika. >> sargent: lil...

Actually fire individuals, they fined -- they want to fine businesses or fire individuals that are not vaccinated and still seeing people test positive among the vaccinated population, which is leading to staffing shortages. what were seeing, fdny, nypd, ems and the staten island ferry running short-staffed. were now going to see that pushed on to the private sector. were hoping the new mayor will reevaluate this situation and at minimum allow people to have the testing option. i believe that co...

Employees should be able to assume their own risk. it is up to them. >> maybe, very foolishly, but they want to balance the risks presented to their health in a different way and osha says no, you cant do that and that applies when you are on the job, and also when you are not on the job. and for the rest of your life baufz to take these vaccines. unless the testing option is viable. >> so, what do you say should be at their own risk? i guess maybe if you are out sick because you have covid and ...

Hospital in newark, new jersey. theets one hospital that the state actually operates. we needed that help and we deeply appreciate it. so whether its loosening of the national guard restrictions or that strike team, as you mentioned, testing, vaccine supplies, fema has been a great partner. and we needed it, by the way. god knows from moment one would be a strong, robust federal response and for the most part were getting it. >> so the u.s. supreme court blocked president bidens vaccine mandate ...

Revisions will actually probably help many essential workers come back. i wish we could have a testing option so we could just have a little bit of security that bringing people back to work is safe for everyone involved. because nobody wants to come to work sick. i know that. nobody wants to put their colleagues at risk. but i also want to emphasize, like, its easy to kind of get lost in these numbers. theyre very distressing. but i want to stress that we have decoupled and been successful at a...

The israeli government has approved a plan to double the number of settlers in the golan heights, regarded by much of the world as occupied territory. a covid vaccine mandate for all private companies comes into force in new york city on monday. the measure, which is the first in the us, applies to about 184,000 businesses. there is no weekly testing option. children between the ages of five and 11 are required to show proof of vaccination to access indoor dining, as well as fitness and entertai...