NYC supermarket chain stepped into the hornets nest on Monday when it announced it would no longer require customers to wear masks under new state and CDC guidelines.
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Some NYC grocery stores, including Trader Joe’s and Morton Williams, are easing up on mask requirements this week in the wake of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that New York moved ahead to adopt the relaxed mask guidelines recently issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The move has sparked controversy among some New Yorkers who are clashing on whether to keep wearing masks without government regulations in place.
At Trader Joe’s, fully vaccinated customers will no longer be required to wear masks, in accordance with the new guidance that the CDC announced last week. However, employees won’t ask for proof of vaccination among maskless customers; instead, the company is implementing an honor system and hoping that unvaccinated customers will still wear masks. Workers will still be required to wear masks for the duration of their shifts.
How Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, Epidemiology Professor, Spends Her Sundays
Throughout the pandemic, nothing has stopped her from going into the office every single day (with fresh flowers).
Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, at home in Manhattan.Credit.Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
By Alix Strauss
May 14, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Even though she is a lauded epidemiologist, Covid’s severity took Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor at Columbia University, by surprise. “People in my world always felt there was a possibility of a pandemic by a new virus,” she said, “but the magnitude and speed at which it happened, and the profound impact on the world, was beyond what I imagined.”
Koita Wins New Product sofi™ Award
Organic Almond + Coconut Milk Wins in Plant-Based Milk Category
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CHICAGO, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Our coffee is even creamier and frothier today! Koita Foods, the maker of premium Italian plant-based milks, is excited to announce that its Organic Almond + Coconut blend won the New Product Award in the Plant-Based Milk category as part of the Specialty Food Association s (SFA) 2021 sofi™ Awards.
Created by Italian baristas, the newest addition to Koita s line of clean-tasting, shelf-stable plant-based milks received the only award in the Plant-Based Milk category. This is Koita s first sofi Award.
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