fired or quit for not complying with vaccine mandates to keep them alive so they don t get covid are now eligible for unemployment benefits in several republican controlled states. florida, iowa, kansasing and tennessee, have changed their unemployment insurance rules to undermine the biden administration s vaccine requirement for federal workers. tennessee has also passed a law prohibiting private businesses from asking employees to show proof for religious or medical exemptions. and in florida, a new law allows workers to be exempt due to future pregnancy or have been infected with covid in the past. that brings us to the latest columbia from the washington post by columnist max booth. it s written, the rush to
to talk about the new covid variant first identified last week in southern africa. it s called omicron. travel restrictions can slow the speed of omicron. the delta variants and now the omicron, and we move forward now in the face of the omicron. so even before omicron this morning i provided an update on the omicron variant. yay. he got it right there. it s kind of a hard word to say at first. president biden is urging emerges to remain calm as the world learns more about the omicron covid variant. we ll speak with dr. na heeb bedelia about what we need to know to keep the holidays safe. we ll also talk about the continues efforts by a number of