With COVID cases on the rise again across the region, vaccination sites are popping up at New York City's 'Summer Rising' youth program locations. NYC offering COVID vaccines at 'Summer Rising' locations 'This is about making sure our families get through COVID OK.' 'This is about keeping people safe,' he said. It will also apply to some contracted employees. The new requirement will apply to all city workers, including police officers, firefighters and teachers. NYC mandates weekly testing for all unvaccinated municipal workersĪll unvaccinated city municipal workers will have to get weekly testing by the start of school in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday, in a dramatic expansion of the city's vaccination policy. At the VA, vaccines will be now mandatory for specified health care personnel - including physicians, dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, registered nurses, physician assistants and others who work in departmental facilities or provide direct care to veterans, said VA Secretary Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough. The VA's move came on a day when nearly 60 leading medical and health care organizations issued a call for health care facilities to require their workers to get vaccinated. The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday became the first major federal agency to require health care workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, as the aggressive delta variant spreads and some communities report troubling increases in hospitalizations among unvaccinated people. VA mandates COVID-19 vaccination for health care workers The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said via email it hasn't decided on how many kids might be added. It had intended to test the vaccine in about 7,000 children, with some as young as 6 months.

The company said it is in talks with the Food and Drug Administration to enroll more study participants under age 12. Moderna said Monday it plans to expand the size of its COVID-19 vaccine study in younger children to better detect rare side effects, such as a type of heart inflammation recently flagged by U.S. Moderna expanding kids COVID-19 vaccine study to better assess safety 'Those are the kind of individuals that if there's going to be a third booster, which might likely happen, would be among first, the vulnerable,' he said. Anthony Fauci suggested a booster shot may be needed for people with weaker immune systems.

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