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...The CDC also recommended that all children and staff wear masks when returning to school in the autumn, whether vaccinated or not....
...“From a public health standpoint, that is a nightmare,” said Dr Archana Chatterjee, dean of Chicago Medical School and a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee....
...In almost two-thirds of counties in the US, less than 40 per cent of people had been vaccinated, Walensky said on Tuesday....
...Officials from several counties, cities and states have already indicated they cannot, or may not, be able to achieve the CDC’s distancing recommendation, meaning children and staff would need to wear masks...
...But the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo said it may be forced to stop accepting new intensive care patients and pause elective procedures, such as hip replacements and cosmetic procedures, if the mandate...
...Earlier this week Walensky said vaccinating staff was not a prerequisite to safe reopening....
...“You just never really know if you’re going to get enough staff,” said Valerie Ewald, who has been a nurse in the intensive care unit at UCLA’s Santa Monica Medical Center for almost 20 years....
...Because that results in people waiting in long, long, long, lines,” said Steve Geller, the mayor of Broward County, Florida’s second largest....
...At Texas Medical Center — a campus of dozens of hospitals and medical facilities that describes itself as “the largest medical city in the world” — the number of Covid patients in hospital is 47 per cent...
...“There were lots of cameras and security people and medical staff wearing full PPE. [If you had a] fever you were banned from travelling out of Wuhan.”...
...“All inmates have access to medical care and appointments and medical staff continue to conduct normal rounds,” the spokesman said. “There is no shortage of hand soap for either staff or inmates.”...
...On Wednesday, Washington state governor Jay Inslee issued an emergency proclamation banning public gatherings of more than 250 in some counties until at least the end of March....
...He will appear alongside Stephen Hahn, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, and Robert Redfield, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Epstein died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan just a month after his arrest and indictment by the US attorney’s office for the southern district of New York....
...And in New York, which is fast becoming one of the global epicentres of the disease, the city’s emergency services received more medical calls than they did on September 11 2001....
...The moves came a day after William Barr, the US attorney-general, said there had been “serious irregularities” at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York where Epstein died in an apparent suicide...
...The attorney-general previously put two staff members at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Epstein died on August 10, on leave and reassigned the jail’s warden....
...William Barr said at a conference in New Orleans on Monday that he was “angry” that the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York had failed to keep Epstein alive....
...Across the US, counties and states are now suing pharmaceutical companies, desperate to recoup the cost of treating and policing those hooked on their drugs....
...The warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, where the disgraced money manager died in an apparent suicide last weekend, has been reassigned pending the outcome of an investigation....
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