A US federal appeals court has reinstated the US president’s executive order, Joe Biden, which dictates that companies with one hundred or more workers ensure your employees are vaccinated against COVID-19.
This decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA) has come a month after another court of appeals blocked Biden’s measure for being “too wide”.
However, the court that issued its ruling has considered that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency that depends on the US Department of Labor, based the labor measure “in a lot of information”.
“OSHA has demonstrated the widespread danger that COVID-19 poses to workers, particularly unvaccinated workers, in their workplaces,” the court said in its decision.
As a result, this court has dissolved the stay issued by the other court in November and has ensured that the order will go back into effect.
Weekly tests and mask
The Biden guideline also establishes that, in case of not wanting to be vaccinated, the workers of these large companies must undergo weekly COVID-19 tests and also carry face mask all time.
This has been the most significant measure applied so far in the workplace against the pandemic by the Government, since it can affect up to 84 million workers from the private sector, according to White House calculations.
Near 70% of the adult population in the United States she is already vaccinated with full agenda, a figure that has risen in recent months since the government began putting pressure on companies to force their workers to receive the serum.
In full rise of contagions
The reinstatement of this measure by Biden, which has been criticized by Republicans, comes amid growing concern about the increase in cases of coronavirus in the United States after the appearance of the omicron variant.
The daily average for the last seven days has been 119,500 cases and 7,800 hospital admissions, which represents an increase of 4% compared to the previous week. Regarding deaths, the daily average in the same period was 1,200, which is equivalent to an increase of 8% compared to the previous week.
Faced with this rebound in general, the main epidemiologist of the US Government, Anthony Fauci, indicated this Friday that the country is currently facing “a very significant increase in delta,” while expecting a rise in the incidence of omicron.
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