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🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's Friday, November 5th. I'm Gideon Ressick. |
0:08.4 | And I am Priyanka Erbindi and this is what a day where we are eyeing new, |
0:12.4 | perfectly-re-drinks at coffee shops with suspicion, but also a little bit of curiosity. |
0:17.4 | Yeah, I'm not going to order it, but I'll definitely think about it long after I leave the coffee shop. |
0:22.0 | So I'm going to take one for the team here and I will order every single one I come into contact, |
0:26.0 | but just so I can let you all know, which is the best. |
0:31.1 | On today's show, a nearly all-white jury is picked for the trial of the three men accused of |
0:35.6 | murdering a mod arbery, plus more from the Climate Summit in Glasgow. |
0:39.6 | But first, an update on vaccines. The Biden administration said yesterday that January 4th |
0:44.6 | is going to be the deadline for companies with 100 or more employees to have their workforce |
0:48.7 | fully vaccinated or to start weekly testing. The rule is expected to cover about 84 million workers. |
0:55.0 | Companies like Tyson Food already imposed a mandate and more than 96 percent of its employees |
0:59.5 | are vaccinated. United Airlines also has one and it estimates that more than 99 percent of |
1:04.4 | their workforce is vaccinated. Although, despite these companies' stats, the Occupational Safety |
1:09.0 | and Health Administration estimated that about 31 million workers under the new rule are not vaccinated. |
1:14.4 | Yeah, additionally, there was another measure from the administration imposed on workers in |
1:18.1 | nursing homes and other similar facilities to get Medicare or Medicaid funds. |
1:22.4 | So all those employees have to be vaccinated by January 4th with no testing option |
1:27.3 | and that will affect an estimated 17 million workers. |
1:30.5 | As for where we are now, about 67 percent of the entire U.S. population has received at least one |
1:36.2 | dose according to the CDC. That number goes up to 78 percent for people ages 12 and up. |
1:41.8 | But that could soon change. This past week, the CDC signed off on Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine |
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