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Background Press Call on OSHA and CMS Rules for Vaccination in the Work place_The White House
November 3, 2021
......fully vaccinated — up from less than 1 percent when the President took office. This is tremendous progress, but we know that we need more vaccinations to save lives, strengthen the economy, and accelerate our path out of this pandemic.
That’s why the President has been leading on requiring vaccinations, including for federal employees and federal contractors, and has called on employers to do the same. Thousands of employers have answered the President’s call and stepped up to implement vaccination requirements covering tens of millions of Americans. These requirements have already reduced the number of eligible unvaccinated Americans by 40 percent — down from about 100 million to just over 60 million now. Tomorrow morning, the administration is announcing a series of new policies that will protect workers and drive additional progress in getting millions of Americans vaccinated.
First, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, is issuing a rule to require employers with 100 or more employees to ensure each of their workers is fully vaccinated or tests negative for COVID at least once a week. This rule covers 84 million employees.
Second, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, is issuing a rule to require that healthcare workers at facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid are fully vaccinated. This rule covers more than 17 million workers at approximately 76,000 healthcare facilities around the country.
And third, to make it easy for businesses and workers to comply, we will be aligning the deadline for the previously announced requirement for employees of federal contractors to be fully vaccinated with these new OSHA and CMS rules. This single, consistent deadline across all three requirements is January 4th, 2022.
So, any employee covered by the CMS or federal contractor requirement must have their final vaccination dose by January 4th. And employers covered by the OSHA rule will need to ensure their employees have received their final vaccination dose by January 4th, with at least weekly testing required for unvaccinated employees after that.
Before I turn to my colleagues to walk through the OSHA and CMS rules in detail, I want to underscore the impact these policies will have on our fight against the virus.
Together, the OSHA and CMS rules, along with the other policies the administration has previously implemented, means that over two thirds of all workers in the United States are now covered by vaccination policies.
Many organizations that have adopted vaccination requirements have increased vaccination rates by more than 20 percentage points to well over 90 percent, and compliance is very high. Higher vaccination rates protect our workers, reduce hospitalizations and deaths. This is good for workers and, importantly, this is good for the economy. For example, analysts at Goldman Sachs projected these kinds of vaccination requirements could lead to up to 5 million Americans reentering the workforce, as they feel safer going back to work and experience fewer disruptions to things like childcare.
The bottom line is: Vaccination requirements work. And the actions we’re taking tomorrow will lead to millions of Americans getting vaccinated, protecting workers, saving lives, strengthening our economy, and helping it to accelerate our path out of this pandemic. With that, I’ll turn it over to [senior administration official].
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Thank you very much. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is dedicated to ensuring every working person in the country has a safe and healthy work place. The unmitigated spread of the corona virus in the work place presents a grave danger of illness or death to unvaccinated workers. OSHA has determined that in order to protect workers from this continued hazard, we must issue an Emergency Temporary Standard to protect workers from the spread of coronavirus in the workplace. The rule we are announcing covers employers with 100 or more employees, firm or company wide, and provides options for compliance to protect their workers.
The standard requires employers to develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, unless they adopt a policy requiring employees to choose either to get vaccinated or to undergo weekly COVID-19testing and wear a face covering at work.
originally posted by: visitedbythem
Do you know what happens when you catch someone in a lie, and present the documentation and evidence to them? Thats when the kid gloves come off. Thats when you will begin to see the real nature of your government. Thats when the # will hit the fan, and guess which side of the fan we will be on?
We Didn’t Force Anyone To Do Anything
originally posted by: Ilikesecrets
What about the CDC vax cards and the threats of Federal prosecution of anyone trying to alter or forge them?
originally posted by: karl 12
originally posted by: ancientlight
It's called gaslighting.
Thanks mate but do prefer to use old school English and just call it 'lying'.
Have found a good rule of thumb is to stay well away from 'new' words or phrases that have been 'seeded' into the public consciousness over the last few years.
Also doesn't help that they keep changing the actual 'definition' of things lol.
Anyway regarding the short video in the first post do have to applaud the guy asking the questions - bravo.
originally posted by: visitedbythem
Do you know what happens when you catch someone in a lie, and present the documentation and evidence to them? Thats when the kid gloves come off. Thats when you will begin to see the real nature of your government. Thats when the # will hit the fan, and guess which side of the fan we will be on?
originally posted by: stevieray
originally posted by: visitedbythem
Do you know what happens when you catch someone in a lie, and present the documentation and evidence to them? Thats when the kid gloves come off. Thats when you will begin to see the real nature of your government. Thats when the # will hit the fan, and guess which side of the fan we will be on?
Why would you expect them to be held to account ?
Total free pass so far.
This is just like the Nazis. Same basic crimes, same excuses after.
We killed the Nazis (well, the non-engineers lol).
That was then, this is now. Now we will let them go scot free.
originally posted by: burntheships
Not only did they FORCE the vaccine, they caused those who refused to be fired, ostracized, fined, even jailed.
• "Mr Parker you're one of a number now of officials in this administration who have come before this committee and tried to tell us that two plus two doesn't equal four.
Sitting in the chair that you're in now the secretary of education testified, gave false testimony, to this committee denying that he had promoted a student vaccine mandate when he had done precisely that.
Sitting in the chair that you're sitting in now the secretary of health and human services made one of the most outlandish statements ever entered into the congressional record, which is saying quite a lot, when he said 'we never forced anyone to do anything' in relation to the widely discredited policy of forcing children as young as two years old to wear masks..
..and now you come before us today, asked about one of the most sweeping abuses of power that we've seen, that was rebuked by the Supreme Court, and you tell us that 'we didn't demand that anyone be fired'.
So has there been some sort of memo going around?
Why is the administration insistent on rewriting history?"
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originally posted by: incoserv
I only have a two-word response to this, but I'd probably be banned for posting it.
Did you hear this? They are actually saying with straight faces that they didn’t force you to wear a mask, or lock down and shutter your businesses, or choose between taking an experimental drug or losing your job… Nope! They did none of that. And you – well, you are flat out crazy if you think they did. You are lying. You are exaggerating and totally overreacting.
• "The more these official institutions engage in this crazy form of denialism, the more they discredit themselves."
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As reported by independent journalist Monique Leal, two of Harper’s brothers were willing to donate their kidneys, but hospitals wouldn’t even consider it given the fact Harper wouldn’t reveal his vaccination status to them.
During Harper’s last moments alive, while on life support, his wife Meghan Harper was told by nurses at the hospital to expect a call from Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) — an organ donation agency.
originally posted by: Glitterjunk
a reply to: markovian
A guy from Canada was just allowed to die despite having two suitable donors, because he was not transfected with the mRNA shot. AND while he lay there dying, organ harvesting companies had the nerve to ask for his organs.
As reported by independent journalist Monique Leal, two of Harper’s brothers were willing to donate their kidneys, but hospitals wouldn’t even consider it given the fact Harper wouldn’t reveal his vaccination status to them.
During Harper’s last moments alive, while on life support, his wife Meghan Harper was told by nurses at the hospital to expect a call from Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) — an organ donation agency.
T ake it or die
originally posted by: Glitterjunk
a reply to: markovian
A guy from Canada was just allowed to die despite having two suitable donors, because he was not transfected with the mRNA shot. AND while he lay there dying, organ harvesting companies had the nerve to ask for his organs.
As reported by independent journalist Monique Leal, two of Harper’s brothers were willing to donate their kidneys, but hospitals wouldn’t even consider it given the fact Harper wouldn’t reveal his vaccination status to them.
During Harper’s last moments alive, while on life support, his wife Meghan Harper was told by nurses at the hospital to expect a call from Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) — an organ donation agency.
T ake it or die