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Home Health Aides Next For Hochul Vaccine Mandate

ALBANY — A looming Thursday vaccination mandate for New York home health workers is projected to have profound impacts on an industry that delivers medical services to frail seniors and disabled persons at their residences. The state mandate facing home health agencies mirrors one that kicked in last week for hospitals and nursing homes. It provides no COVID-19 testing option as a way to bypass the dictate that nurses, therapists, home health aides and other staffers must show they have been inoculated to continue to work in the field.o There are approximately 1,500 home health ...

Warren County School District Faces Lawsuit Over Mask Votes

WARREN, Pa. -- A lawsuit has been filed against the Warren County School District over its decision to effectively make masks optional on buses and in school. At issue is the district’s Sept. 13 decision to permit parents to sign a waiver in order to exempt their children from state mask ...

New York State’s Largest Health Provider Fires 1,400 For Refusing Shots

NEW YORK (AP) — Northwell Health, New York state's largest health care provider, announced that 1,400 employees have been terminated for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The terminations represent less than 2% of the total workforce of Northwell, which runs 23 hospitals and more ...

NYC Survives Court Challenge To School Vaccine Mandate

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City survived a court challenge to its school vaccination mandate Tuesday, while hospitals across the state reported few disruptions to their services because of the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers. U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil in ...

Restraining Order Granted In Warren Mask Case; Masks Now Required

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order against the Warren County School District. The decision halts the district’s procedure that effectively made masks optional in school. “Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, October 6th, mask exceptions will not be permitted as a means for not wearing a mask,” according to a statement on the district’s website. “Only those students who have exemptions and accommodations through the 504 and IDEA processes will be accepted.”

COVID Vaccine Mandate Takes Effect For NYC Teachers, Staff

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City teachers and other school staff members were all supposed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when the bell rang Monday morning in one of the first school district mandates in the country requiring employees to be inoculated against the coronavirus. Mayor Bill ...