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- California will require state employees and all healthcare workers to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or get tested weekly.
- Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed that California will have the "strongest vaccine verification system in the US."
- "Too many people have chosen to live with this virus," Newsom said Monday as he announced the new mandate.
"Too many people have chosen to live with this virus," Newsom said during a press briefing where he announced the new vaccination requirement, which is set to take effect next month.
The Democratic governor added, "We're at a point in this epidemic, this pandemic, where individuals' choice not to get vaccinated is now impacting the rest of us in a profound and devastating and deadly way."
There are 246,000 state employees in California who are expected to be affected by the order. Additionally, there are at least 2 million healthcare workers in the public and private sectors in the state who fall under the mandate, the Associated Press reported.
The vaccine or test requirement also applies to those working in "high-risk congregate settings" such as adult and senior residential facilities, homeless shelters, and jails, the governor said.
The new policy for state workers is expected to take effect on August 2, and testing is expected to be phased in over the next few weeks, while the policy for healthcare workers and those in congregate facilities is set to take effect on August 9.
Healthcare facilities have until August 23 to be in full compliance.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday that the entire city workforce — some 340,000 people — will be mandated by mid-September to get vaccinated against the coronavirus or be tested weekly, and the Department of Veterans Affairs also announced that all healthcare workers will need to get vaccinated.
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Is the federal Govt paying for all these tests? You can't tell me the health insurance vendors are going to pay for them without some compensation.