On Wednesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago said she would require all city employees, including police officers, sanitation workers and park employees, to be fully vaccinated by Oct.
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And the cities of Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as Washington State and Oregon, have also recently announced full vaccine mandates for teachers. California and Hawaii have similar mandates in place. Murphy of New Jersey said that all teachers in that state would have to either be vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. The move comes as other states and cities weigh vaccine mandates after the Food and Drug Administration this week granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for people 16 and older, making it the first to move beyond emergency-use status in the United States.Įarlier this week, Gov. Under the new vaccine rule in Illinois, educators who decline to be vaccinated will be required to submit to testing at least once a week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended masking for everyone in schools, regardless of vaccination status, and several states, including California and Connecticut, have school mask mandates in place. He has also mandated masks in state-run nursing homes and similar facilities, and required vaccinations of people who work there. Pritzker issued a mask mandate for students, faculty and staff in preschools, elementary and high schools throughout the state. Illinois reported a seven-day average of 3,547 cases on Wednesday, more than three times the average cases reported one month ago.Įarlier this month, Mr. Pritzker, a Democrat, has taken an aggressive approach to restrictions intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus, which has spiked in Illinois in recent weeks, particularly in the downstate region, where intensive-care beds are scarce. Hospitalization numbers early in the pandemic are undercounts due to incomplete reporting by hospitals to the federal government. Dips and spikes could be due to inconsistent reporting by hospitals. Currently hospitalized is the most recent number of patients with Covid-19 reported by hospitals in the state for the four days prior. The seven-day average is the average of a day and the previous six days of data.
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