Ports around the U.S. are rolling out vaccines for seafarers, extending a lifeline to thousands of mostly foreign workers who’ve spent the pandemic isolated aboard ships ensuring goods kept trading across a battered global economy.
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Ports around the U.S. are rolling out vaccines for seafarers, extending a lifeline to thousands of mostly foreign workers who ve spent the pandemic isolated aboard ships ensuring goods kept trading across a battered global economy.
From Boston to Houston and Los Angeles, and even in smaller trade gateways like Gulfport, Miss., local health officials and nonprofits are boarding container ships, tankers and other cargo carriers to administer COVID-19 shots or, when possible, shuttling crews to nearby pharmacies and clinics.
The preferred vaccine for maritime workers: the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot, because they re often docked for just a day or two.
Supporters of a bill winding its way through the Legislature say it will finally bring fairness when it comes to property taxes paid to counties with more state-owned lands, but others warn it takes funds from a much-needed lodging tax that helps Montanaâs lodging industry reeling from the punch of COVID-19.
However, those who opposed parts of the bill werenât necessarily against the whole thing, but said it should take the funds from the portion of the lodging tax that goes to the stateâs general fund and not the share that goes to help tourism.
Senate Bill 355, sponsored by Sen. Mike Lang, R-Malta, would take away $482,000 of the lodging facility taxes from the Montana Historical Society, the Montana University System, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and Tribal Economic Development and give it to 16 of the stateâs 56 counties where more than 6% of the land is owned by the state. The biggest chunk, $303,660, would come from the Department of Commerce, which uses