Biden encourages vaccine incentives, announces requirements for federal workers

Biden is stepping up efforts to get shots in arms, including calling on governments to do more to incentivize vaccination by offering $100 to those who get vaccinated.
Joe Biden Endorses Widespread Coronavirus Vaccine Mandates: ‘It’s Time to Impose Requirements’

Joe Biden fully endorsed the idea of private businesses everywhere requiring their employees to get vaccinated.
The NFL Is Setting the Standard for COVID Vaccine Crackdowns

Companies like Google and Facebook have imposed their own vaccine mandates, and Joe Biden is expected to announce a similar standard for federal workers. But the NFL is going so far as to impose fines—over the protests of some players.
The Anti-Vaxxers in Missouri Are So Deranged That People Are Getting COVID Shots in Disguise

“Please, please, please don’t let anybody know that I got this vaccine.”
EC Healthcare and Prenetics Form Strategic Partnership to Pioneer the Future of Medicine

HONG KONG, Jul 29, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – EC Healthcare (the “Company”, which together with its subsidiaries is referred to as the “Group”, SEHK stock code: 2138), the largest non-hospital medical group in Hong Kong, announces that the Group signed a memorandum of understanding with Prenetics Limited (“Prenetics”) for a strategic collaboration in relation…
Biden Announces Strict New COVID-19 Rules for Unvaccinated Federal Workers

The Biden administration on Thursday said that federal workers and contractors will have to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or wear masks, engage in social distancing, or submit to regular COVID-19 testing. “Right now, too many people are dying or watching someone they love die and say if ‘I’d just got the vaccine,’” President…
Pennsylvania to text people who missed second vaccine shot

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Department of Health will carry out a text messaging campaign to encourage roughly 254,000 people in the state to follow through and get the second shot of the two-shot COVID-19 vaccine that they never received,…
NFLPA President criticizes league on vaccine wristbands

CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns center and NFLPA President JC Tretter feels the NFL is trying to shame players by urging teams to require vaccinated and unvaccinated players to wear different colored wristbands.
Jefferies Requiring Covid Vaccines for Employees in Its Offices

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. is mandating that employees who wish to return to its offices must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
Do you need a booster shot for the Pfizer vaccine? Here’s what Ashish Jha said.

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