Order thatll require federal contractors to do the same. The Department Of Labor is developing an Emergency Rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees that together employers over 80 Million workers to ensure their Work Forces are fully vaccinated. This is a huge change. This will impact many americans if the rules go through. Here is what you need to know. One, the u. S. Government is using their regulatory powers to require companies to carry out its mandates. 100 people must require those workers get vaccinated. This rules required an alternative to people who do not get vaccinated then they must submit weekly testing. The rule uses corporate power as the pressure here. It does not go as far as making it illegal. The rule comes as the latest data that the vaccines are working, they are crushing the Variant And Delta variant. People who are vaccinated now have a one and One Thousand chance of getting covid. And five, this is as sweeping policy through the United States.
Now account for more than one in four of all weekly new coronavirus infections, with over 250,000 new infections in the last week alone. Child hospitalizations, theyre also at an alltime high. But to be clear, less than 2 of all pediatric covid19 cases result in hospitalization, far below with older people. Dr. Anthony fauci says the uptick in cases is still avoidable. If we do things right, we hope that we dont see much increase at all. If we want to protect the children, particularly those who are not yet eligible for vaccination, you want to surround the children with people who are vaccinated. Teachers, school personnel, everyone else. Some schools in the south have been particularly hit hard since reopening. One district in Central Georgia has temporarily moved to virtual learning after three Transportation Staff died in recent weeks. In florida 13 employees in Miami Dade public schools died since mid august. We should note, all of them unvaccinated. That statistic remains consist
Right now in geneva we are about to get an update from the officials at the world health organization, youre looking at live, covid will mutate like the flu and is probably here to stay. President biden getting a briefing from his Pandemic Response Team in a matter of hours before his big Speech Tomorrow on that topic. New details from our team there, and on the other end of pennsylvania avenue, House Speaker Nancy pelosi expected to take to that microphone any minute now the democratic to do list looking long. Well bring you the head lines as they happen. Good morning im Hallie Jackson in washington along with our news team, Cal Perry in kentucky, Shannon Pettypiece at the White House to start us off. Cal as we follow the Court Hearing in florida where the governor is fighting against School Mask mandates the governor of kentucky is in a fight in his state where you are to keep them in place. The stories mirror each other and shows you where we are as a country when it comes to these
Hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uks leading commentators, bbc specialists, and the journalists who write, Blog And Broadcast from the dateline london. This week, Back To School back to covid . Afghanistan after america, and the Dateline Panel Mark your cards with the news thats worrying them. The they this week are steve richards, author of the Prime Ministers we never had and after 30 years in the highways and byeways of westminster, he should know. Eunice goes is a portgusese journalist and academic, and with me in the studio is bbc health editor, hugh pym. Welcome, hugh, and welcome to both of you, as well. Good to have you with us. Now, here in the uk, covid has quietly slipped down News Programme running orders. During the summer, newspapers and Website Front pages have had other headlines olympic and paralympic glory, and, of course, afghanistan. It was scotlands First Minister who brought us up sharp tuesday, when she told the Scottish Parlia
Now on bbc news, dateline. Hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uks leading commentators, bbc specialists, and the journalists who write, Blog And Broadcast from the dateline london. This week, Back To School back to covid . Afghanistan after america, and the Dateline Panel Mark your cards with the news thats worrying them. The they this week are steve richards, author of the Prime Ministers we never had and after 30 years in the highways and byeways of westminster, he should know. Eunice goes is a portuguese journalist and academic, and with me in the studio is bbc health editor, hugh pym. Welcome, hugh, and welcome to both of you, as well. Good to have you with us. Now, here in the uk, covid has quietly slipped down News Programme running orders. During the summer, newspapers and Website Front pages have had other headlines olympic and paralympic glory, and, of course, afghanistan. It was scotlands First Minister who brought us up sharp tuesday, when s