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BUSINESS GROUPS CAUGHT FLAT-FOOTED BY CDC MASK GUIDANCE: The Biden administration’s announcement Thursday that fully vaccinated Americans can ditch their masks in most situations is undoubtedly a major milestone in the country’s fight against Covid-19. But trade groups representing the businesses, and a union representing the workers who will now be tasked with enforcing mask-wearing for unvaccinated people, are now scrambling to parse what the guidance means for their members.
Larry Lynch, who as senior vice president of science and industry for the National Restaurant Association handles its Covid operating guidance, said in an interview that the new recommendations may be the industry’s biggest challenge yet. “We don t know how to be the vaccine police,” he said. “CDC didn t do us didn t do the industry, any big favors,” he added, though “it certainly helped consumers.”
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PHARMA, MANUFACTURERS BLAST ADMINISTRATION OVER VACCINE PATENT WAIVERS: The Biden administration on Wednesday reversed course and said it supports waiving patent and other intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines in a bid to ramp up production of the shots around the globe a victory for progressives who had pressured the administration and potentially a major blow for the pharmaceutical industry, which had lobbied heavily against the waiver.