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Alabama
Montgomery: State lawmakers have inched closer to approving a ban on so-called vaccine passports that would require proof of COVID-19 vaccination to access services from a business or state agency. The House Health Committee voted Wednesday to send the bill to House of Representatives for a vote. It has already cleared the Senate. The bill contains a number of exceptions. Surgeons, dentists, medical institutions, hospitals and other health care providers are exempted. Universities could still require students to receive a vaccine; however, there would be exceptions for vaccines approved for “emergency use” by the FDA, as is the case with all three COVID-19 vaccines given in the United States thus far. The idea of vaccine passports is to have a document that shows a person has been inoculated against COVID-19. Federal officials say there are no plans to make them broadly mandatory, but some Republican governors have issued orders b
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Delaware News Journal
Rafael Flores had not seen a health care provider since he arrived in the U.S. from Honduras four years ago.
But that changed Tuesday as the Bear resident waited outside of the Saint Clare Medical Outreach Van in hopes of having a small piece of debris removed from his eye.
The debris fell in his eye Monday while cleaning his backyard, but he didn’t notice until he woke up with a distressed eye this morning. Since he was uninsured, a few of his friends recommended the van parked at the Job Placement Center on Lancaster Avenue Tuesday as a potential solution to his problem.