Surgeon General on COVID: "Next Few Weeks Will Be Tough"
Source: Slate
In an interview on ABCs This Week, Murthy said that case numbers are high and hospitals are struggling. But he also said there was good news in some parts of the country as some cities that were hit hardest by the latest wave appear to be experiencing a respite. The good news is that there are parts of the country, New York, in particular, and other parts of the Northeast, where we are starting to see a plateau and, in some cases, an early decline in cases, Murthy said on CNN.
Murthy also criticized the Supreme Courts decision to block the Biden administrations vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers. The news about the workplace requirement being blocked was very disappointing, Murthy said. It was a setback for public health. Because what these requirements ultimately are helpful for is not just protecting the community at large, but making our workplaces safer for workers as well as for customers. The administration is now strongly encouraging companies to put in requirements voluntarily. Many have done so already, he said on ABC. A third of the Fortune 100 companies have put these in place and many more outside have, so we are certainly encouraging companies to put these requirements in place voluntarily.
Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/vivek-murthy-covid-next-few-weeks-will-be-tough.html
Hekate
(90,853 posts)Initech
(100,107 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,431 posts)here in Michigan...
At that point, I really must try to get back to work, in some fashion... planning on some fashion of "driving work" through web apps.
I really would like to be doing Uber, but I really do not want people in my car with me...
sick of Covid, but it certainly is not my President Joe Biden's fault--
It is the fault of the Trump Humpers who offer themselves as human targets for the virus, in order to try to prevent President Biden from getting credit for defeating the virus....
CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)Another threat, another bunch of words that mean what exactly?
Why don't you issue a GLOBAL MASK MANDATE? You can do that, so do it would you?
tavernier
(12,409 posts)Should be a headline in every paper throughout the country. These jerks are killing people.
Wild blueberry
(6,670 posts)Thank you.
ProfessorGAC
(65,230 posts)Their reasoning was illogical, although rooted in a fine legal point.
If OSHA has the authority to require safety measures, they have the authority to require safety measures.
And, this put no undue burden on employers.
The ruling made no sense and seems to be playing to their Federalist base.
ProfessorGAC
(65,230 posts)...the last 4 days. So maybe we've hit the peak. But,...
The concern is that omicron hasn't hit the rural areas south & west. The dominant strain there is still delta.
Admittedly 75% of the population lives in the 1/6th of the state's area in the northeast corner.
But, 3 million people is 3 million people. And, they haven't seen full blown omicron yet, and those areas have the lowest vax rate.