The U.S. Has Passed Its Delta Peak — With More Vaccine Rules Coming
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🗓️ 4 October 2021
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Summary
Vaccination rates continue to tick up and will be helped along by more workplace vaccine rules, including one from the Department of Labor. That rule, which has yet to be released, will be enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports on the small agency with a big task.
Vaccine rules have been implemented successfully at big companies like United Airlines and Novant Health, where the vast majority of employees have gotten their shots. But in smaller workplaces, vaccine rules present a different challenge. Katia Riddle reports from Malheur County, Oregon.
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| 0:00.0 | September is officially behind us and so is the peak of the Delta surge in the US. |
| 0:05.8 | We're beginning to see cases and hospitalizations decrease from their peaks in late August and early September. |
| 0:11.9 | CDC director Ryszel Wolenski said late last week, September was a month of declines in cases and hospitalizations. |
| 0:19.7 | Dets from COVID-19, a lagging indicator, are falling too. |
| 0:23.8 | And that's even with more and more students going back to school and college in person. |
| 0:29.9 | Bad news? |
| 0:30.9 | Dets remain substantially higher in states with low vaccine coverage. |
| 0:36.9 | In those deaths, push the US past a brutal milestone over the weekend. |
| 0:42.0 | 700,000 people are dead from COVID-19. |
| 0:45.5 | That's according to data from Johns Hopkins University. |
| 0:49.0 | But there's evidence our national vaccine rate may continue to go up as more vaccine rules take effect. |
| 0:55.4 | Mandates work they make us safer. I would urge every mayor in America. |
| 1:01.2 | Do it now. Get those. |
| 1:02.7 | New York City mayor Bill DeBlosio told MSNBC just last week that vaccinations went up 45 percent after the city began to require them for indoor dining. |
| 1:12.5 | And when it comes to the city's vaccine mandate for school staff, DeBlosio said last week that 93 percent of teachers had gotten a first dose ahead of a Monday deadline to do so. |
| 1:24.0 | There's so much noise when you put a mandate for. |
| 1:27.5 | But whether it's the one we did for schools or the one we did for indoor dining, the bottom line is when the dusts settle. |
| 1:34.0 | A huge number of people went out and got vaccinated. |
| 1:38.0 | Consider this. Across the country, the number of cases from the Delta Surge is falling, while the number of cities, states, and businesses with vaccine rules is on the rise. |
| 1:48.7 | Coming up more on how those rules are playing out. |
| 1:53.9 | From NPR, I'm Adi Cornish. It's Monday, October 4th. |
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