Today is Tuesday, July 27th, and you're listening to the morning announcements

presented by Batches Media. I'm Sammy Sage.

Both the state of California and New York City announced changes to their vaccination

requirements for workers yesterday. New York City is now requiring that all city workers

are vaccinated while California will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination or weekly testing

for all state workers and health care employees. At the same time, the Veterans Affairs Agency

became the first federal agency to require that most of its 115,000 health workers get vaccinated,

and they're giving their employees eight weeks to comply. I have to say, it was actually

pretty alarming for me to learn, and maybe it will be for you too, that many workers in the

health field remain unvaccinated. As of July 11th, only 38% of nursing home staff were fully

vaccinated, despite the fact that their job is to literally keep old and unhealthy people's

safe and healthy. Also yesterday, in an effort to get more of the population vaccinated overall,

both Pfizer and Moderna announced that they're expanding vaccine trials to children ages 5-11.

And I just hope these kids get some good practice and compensating for the older generation's

issues because they're going to be spending their entire lifetime's doing it.

Another COVID-19 announcement came from the White House yesterday. President Biden declared that

long-term symptoms of COVID-19 can be considered disability under federal civil rights laws.

This comes as the Americans with Disabilities Act celebrated its 31st anniversary yesterday.

And the Department of Education issued a document about the responsibility of schools to

provide services and reasonable modifications for children with long COVID.

Apparently, President Biden's schedule was full of many calls in many meetings yesterday,

because he also hosted a RACS Prime Minister at the White House, with the agenda of

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