‘Who do they work for’: On day Medicaid expansion would have started, Missourians protest
Tessa Weinberg and Rudi Keller
Missouri Independent
Protesters had a special delivery for Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday, but they couldn’t reach him.
On the day more than 275,000 Missourians would have been eligible to enroll in Medicaid if the voter-approved expansion had gone into effect, a dozen clergy members stood in the entrance to the Missouri Department of Transportation offices with a box in hand.
In it were transcripts from more than 150 Missourians who had called to leave Parson a message. There was Susan from Joplin, Phillip from St. Louis, Elizabeth from Wentworth.
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Will L.A. follow San Francisco and require city employees to get vaccinated? Kevin Rector © Provided by The LA Times Firefighter Anthony MacDougall administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Carmen Limeta at a mobile vaccination site at South Park Recreation Center in Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
During a meeting between Mayor Eric Garcetti and his city department heads Monday, a conversation about how to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among city employees veered at one point to vaccination mandates including the one being implemented in San Francisco.
Whether L.A. will follow San Francisco s example, however, is unclear.
San Francisco announced last week that all 35,000 of its employees will have to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing their jobs. It gave them until July 29 to report their vaccination status to the city, and said vaccinations will be required once the vaccines receive full authorization rather than their current e