SINGAPORE, July 23 (Reuters) - Vaccinated individuals accounted for three-quarters of Singapore's COVID-19 infections in the last four weeks, but they were not falling seriously ill, government data showed, as a rapid ramp-up in inoculations leaves fewer people unvaccinated.
While the data shows that vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe cases, it also underscores the risk that even those inoculated could be contagious, so that inoculation alone may not suffice to halt transmission
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Because so many Haitians who have arrived on the US and Mexican border in Texas, some are being sent to Tucson for processing by the Border Patrol.
It’s estimated nearly 15,000 Haitian refugees are living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, more than the Border Patrol can process.
Some are arriving in Tucson by bus while other’s are arriving by air. The groups receiving them say that it’s fairly intermittent and the numbers are unpredictable.
Officials declined to say just how many have arrived in Tucson in the past few days, because there’s some concern about how well received they may be.
They are being processed at the border patrol detention facility which was opened in April near the airport.
Once they are processed, they are then sent to Casa Alitas, a shelter run by Catholic Community Services, which told us this afternoon this is not going to be a long term operation.
They say it will short term until the pressure is relieved along the border in Texas.
The Haitians, once they arrive, will be in Tucson for only a short time.
IN two different actions, Mexican Army soldiers secured the drugs in the rural area of the municipality.
Washington — Arizona's attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to invalidate President Biden's latest COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers and large companies, becoming the first state to mount a legal challenge to the administration's newest rules.
In a 14-page complaint filed with a federal district court in Arizona, Attorney General Mark Brnovich argued Mr. Biden's new vaccine requirements unconstitutionally discriminate against U.S. citizens because undocumented immigrants apprehended by federal law enforcement are not subject to a federal vaccination requirement.
While the details of the policies are still being worked out and yet to be made public, the attorney general said they are an "egregious" violation of the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — Employer vaccine mandates are popping up more and more daily. Arizona's Family spoke to many Phoenix-area employment attorneys who have plenty of clients facing this predicament. Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson all have vaccines protecting you from getting a severe case of COVID-19. Some employers are forcing workers to get them if they want to continue working there.
More businesses are implementing vaccine mandates.
One of those workers, who wants to remain anonymous, has worked for his company for over 30 years. He chooses not to get the vaccine due to various reasons. "I've been granted a religious accommodation and I have a medical accommodation pending for the antibodies and I'm waiting for them to respond to that. Currently, they've sent me home," he said.
He'll be home until the company says the threat of COVID-19 is no longer high. "I couldn't believe that they would force somebody to do something like that," he said.
For now, that employee remains with his company. But if you're fired for refusing to comply with the mandate, a local attorney says you can't get unemployment benefits. "Generally, unemployment compensation is available for employees who have found themselves unemployed through no fault of their own. So, it was not their decision," said Labor and Employment Attorney Alejandro Perez.
REDDING, Calif. - A year and a half of school pandemic safety has frustrated parents saying enough.
A school walkout across the state is set for Oct. 18. In Redding, a group of people plans to meet at the Riverfront Park, next to Sundial Bridge, to rally against the vaccine mandates on Monday.
Schuyler Wilson’s kids attend University Preparatory School and Turtle Bay Elementary School. His kids are participating in the walkout.
“There's a lot of emotions attached to this and there's a lot of upset parents,” said Wilson. “This isn't just a one-time thing. This is a movement now, and it's not going to stop on one day.”
Without mandates to get a shot, some film and TV sets have been thrown into chaos as A-list holdouts have caused work stoppages while others say, “It’s not my place to police anyone.”
On the other end of the spectrum, in July, Oscar-winner Sean Penn left the set of NBC Universal’s Watergate-era limited series Gaslit (co-starring Julia Roberts) and refused to return until every member of the production was vaccinated. Ultimately, Penn returned two months later with the compromise that everyone in Zone A—a category that typically includes the project’s main actors and key crew members—get vaccinated. Penn has been extremely vocal about his opinions regarding the vaccine, telling THR while promoting his film Flag Day that he wants theatergoers to “stay home until you are convinced of these very clearly safe vaccines.”
