Return of the Mask

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🗓️ 28 July 2021

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Summary

Why employers are getting bolder with vaccine mandates. How the pandemic worsened the opioid crisis. And the aftermath of the floods in Germany.

On Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors in certain circumstances because of the highly transmissible delta variant. At the same time, many employers — including the federal government — are considering coronavirus vaccine mandates. Dan Diamond reports on the changing guidance around masks and vaccines.

Last week, the three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson reached a settlement in court after being sued for the damages of the opioid crisis. Lenny Bernstein on how the pandemic has affected the continuing opioid epidemic. You can find our related story from 2018 about the Trump administration’s handling of the fentanyl crisis here.

This past month, floods in Germany and Belgium killed nearly 200 people. Loveday Morris reports on the clean-up and recovery in Western Europe.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this is Ben Tara from the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hi, Jeff.
0:10.0	Let's win three Oprah.
0:11.0	Hi there.
0:12.0	How are you?
0:13.0	It's Lisa bonus coming from the post.
0:15.0	This is Post for Ports.
0:17.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:20.0	It's Wednesday, July 28th.
0:25.0	Today, why employers are getting bolder with vaccine mandates?
0:29.0	COVID's effect on the opioid crisis, and life after floods in Germany.
0:36.0	We're even 5 more federal employees to get vaccinated.
0:41.0	I'm sorry, consideration right now, but if you're not vaccinated,
0:44.0	you're not nearly as smart as I thought you were.
0:49.0	The government is moving forward.
0:51.0	It appears on a vaccination mandate for federal workers.
0:55.0	That's millions of workers.
0:57.0	Many of whom probably do have the vaccine already, but a number don't.
1:01.0	And that's something that public health experts had wanted the president to do for some time.
1:06.0	It's a big population.
1:07.0	It's that's an example.
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