Tulino says that the mandate, even though it does allow for weekly testing in lieu of the vaccine, is likely to result in the loss of many employees. Tulino claims this could be the result of employees leaving voluntarily or by being disciplined.
On Tuesday, President Biden authorized his top health aids in the Administration to double the purchase to twenty million pills (his original order for Paxlovid alone was ten million).
Starting in late December and into January, the Internal Revenue Service will be sending important letters to taxpayers who received the third stimulus payment or the child tax credit payments.
Texas is known for its hot, humid summers and freezing, dry winters. But where does all the snowfall in Texas? The weather in Texas is very different from the rest of the United States.
In an effort to be able to tie spent shell casings to a particular weapon, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is working on a computer imaging program known as NIBIN. The imaging system is intended to not only link spent shell casings to a particular gun, but hopefully to a suspect as well.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed the isolation restrictions for asymptomatic patients from 10 days to five days in an announcement on Monday. According to the CDC, the change in the isolation recommendations comes as emerging science demonstrates that most people with the virus are the most infectious in the two days prior to the development of symptoms and three days following this development.
The CEO of Southwest Airlines said in testimony to a United State Senate panel committee, "masks (on planes) don't add much, if anything" to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The federal government has offered several "pauses" for those with student loans during the pandemic. On Wednesday, President Biden announced that the initial freeze, which was to be lifted on January 31, 2022, will be extended through the end of April. In doing so, President Biden has extended the current pause until May 1.
The crew of the U.S. Navy warship the USS Milwaukee remains docked at the Naval Station port in Guantanamo Bay, although it was scheduled to deploy to South America last week. The crew is fully vaccinated, yet a rash of positive COVID-19 tests keeps the ship from leaving on its latest assignment.