По борьбе с омикроновой волной.
В США каждая семья может получить
4 антигенных теста на ковид, бесплатно, от правительства.
Так же, будут распространяться по 3 респиратора N95s на взрослого, в ближайшее время.
Не знаю, на сколько это поможет решить проблему, даже с учетом того, что респираторы-то не одноразовые на самом деле, загрязняются медленно и носить их можно долго, особенно если обрабатывать ультрафиолетом (или держать несколько часов " на солнце").
Других ограничительных мер с гулькин нос, карантины сократили до 5 дней, а и дополнительные "ковидные" федеральные 10 дней к годовым оплачиваемым больничным дням (где 3, где 5, где 10 или 12) тоже вроде
убраны, как и
штатного уровня, потому кто себе сможет позволить болеть или тем более карантиниться, если положительный или контактировал? Проще сделать вид, что все ок. До тех пор пока не врубит конкретно.
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The Omicron variant caused 99.5% of new coronavirus cases in the US last week, according to estimates posted Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Economists and public health experts alike say
paid sick leave is an essential tool—like testing, masks and vaccines —in the effort to prevent COVID-19 infection and keep workplaces safe. Yet the U.S. is entering another COVID holiday season, and federal laws that offered COVID-related paid sick leave to workers have expired. Colorado, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh are among a small number of places that have put in place their own COVID protections, but many sick workers across the country must wrestle with difficult financial and ethical questions when deciding whether to stay home. “Millions of workers don’t have access to paid sick leave, and we’re still in a pandemic,” said Nicolas Ziebarth, a labor economist at Cornell University. The U.S. is one of only a few industrialized nations that has no national paid sick leave policy.The coronavirus pandemic led to short-term change. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act mandated paid sick leave nationally, a first in U.S. history, according to Ziebarth. The law included about two weeks of full pay for employees who were quarantined or seeking medical attention for COVID-like symptoms and additional weeks at partial pay to care for a child stuck at home because of COVID. But the paid sick leave mandate consistently applied only to employers with 50 to 499 employees and lasted just nine months, expiring at the end of 2020. After that, employers could decide whether they wanted to continue offering paid sick leave in return for tax credits, though those expired at the end of September. About 5% of U.S. employees used the federal COVID sick leave protection, Ziebarth and his colleagues wrote in the journal PNAS, and it appears to have helped flatten the curve of the pandemic initially. But it wasn’t enough. The number of people who were sick with any kind of illness but couldn’t take time off went from about 5 million per month before the pandemic to 15 million in late 2020—even with the federal leave in place.People with the lowest incomes are the least likely to be covered by paid sick leave, said Dr. Rita Hamad, a social epidemiologist and family physician at the University of California-San Francisco. “We’re just left with whatever patchwork of employer and state policies that existed before, which leave the most vulnerable people least covered,” she said. The Build Back Better Act, which is up for a vote in the Senate after passing the House on Nov. 19, may grant some paid medical and family leave so workers can deal with longer-term illnesses or caregiving, but it does not include time off for recovering from short-term illness. Jared Make, vice president of A Better Balance, a national legal nonprofit advocating for worker rights, has been pushing federal, state and local lawmakers for years to expand paid sick leave and has drafted model legislation. He said 16 states, Washington, D.C., and about 20 localities have permanent paid sick time laws. One of the most generous, New Mexico’s, will take effect in July. Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York and the District of Columbia provide COVID-specific emergency sick leave, as do Pittsburgh and a few cities in California, such as Los Angeles, Oakland and Long Beach. In some places, employers are taking the initiative to address the problem. “It is a glaring gap, in our opinion, that the federal government hasn’t continued some form of even COVID-19 emergency sick leave,” Make said. “It’s obviously a huge shortcoming given where we are in the pandemic.” Colorado, which is experiencing a COVID surge, passed last year what Denver-based Make considers the strongest COVID sick leave protections of any state. The law, which allows any employee to earn up to six days of paid sick leave per year and takes effect fully in January, says that when local, state or federal officials declare a public health emergency, employers must supplement workers’ accrued leave so an employee can take up to two weeks of paid sick leave for, in this case, COVID-related reasons. The emergency leave provision won’t expire until at least February. However, some employers aren’t complying.
2021 COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Expired on September 30, 2021 From January 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021, California required employers with 26 or more employees to provide their workers up to 80 hours of supplemental paid sick leave (SPSL) for COVID-19 related reasons. After September 30, workers who were not paid the SPSL they were entitled to when they were unable to work in 2021 due to COVID-19 can still request pay from their employer or file a claim with the Labor Commissioner. For more information, visit the
Labor Commissioner’s webpage on the expiration of 2021 COVID-19 SPSL.
However, exclusion pay is still required under the COVID-19 Emergency Standards for workers who have to quarantine due to a COVID-19 workplace exposure.