The Covid-sized hole in Biden’s vax order
With help from Tyler Weyant
A TIME OF TESTING (FOR SOME) President Joe Biden unveiled his don’t-call-it-a-mandate vaccine mandate for 2 million federal employees today, announcing that the civilian workforce and federal contractors will be required to disclose whether they’ve been vaccinated against Covid or face testing once or twice a week.
President Joe Biden talks to reporters as he walks off stage after delivering remarks in the East Room of the White House. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Workers who aren’t fully vaccinated will have to wear masks regardless of geographic location and will be subject to travel restrictions and physical distancing measures.
POLITICO
Get the POLITICO Nightly newsletter
Email
Sign Up
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
With help from Sarah Owermohle and Myah Ward
BEYOND CTRL-ALT-DELETE
again,
after another high-profile cyberattack exposed more frailties in the world’s computer systems.
Unlike the Colonial Pipeline hack, the ransomware attack on the IT software management vendor Kaseya doesn’t appear to have threatened critical infrastructure. Still, it highlights the difficulty of curbing the activities of Russian cyber criminals, who can effectively terrorize businesses around the world with impunity from sanctuaries in Russia and other former Soviet states.
Research will synthesize lessons learned and best practices from low- to middle-income countries that are positive outliers in managing Covid-19 across
Operational Response to US Measles Outbreaks, 2017-19 biomedcentral.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from biomedcentral.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Presider
Vice President for National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
J. Nadine Gracia, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Trust for America’s Health, and Jennifer Nuzzo, senior fellow for global health at CFR, discuss the COVID-19 vaccine and ensuring it is equitably distributed throughout the United States.
FASKIANOS: Thank you. Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations Social Justice and Foreign Policy webinar series hosted by the Religion and Foreign Policy Program. I m Irina Faskianos, vice president for the National Program and Outreach at CFR. As a reminder, today s webinar is on the record and the audio, video, and transcript will be available on our website, CFR.org, and on our iTunes podcast channel,