Illinois governor to order statewide mask mandate and require vaccines for educators from kindergart
Source: Chicago Tribune
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is expected to double down Thursday on his efforts to deal with a resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic’s delta variant as schools reopen by requiring all educators from kindergarten through college to be vaccinated.
Additionally, Pritzker plans to require a statewide mandate of masking of people age 2 and above in indoor locations, according to two sources familiar with the governor’s actions, as the variant has led to increasing hospitalizations among younger people and the unvaccinated, along with increasing reports of “breakthrough cases” among those who are vaccinated.
The Democratic governor’s announcement is expected to come days after he said he had no plans to expand a vaccine mandate beyond state and private workers in congregate settings, such as nursing homes, prisons and veterans’ homes. His comments followed the federal Food and Drug Administration’s full use approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Monday, after it had previously received FDA emergency authorization during the pandemic.
The Pfizer full-use authorization is for people age 16 and above, meaning the vast majority of grade school students are not cleared for vaccination. The FDA has not yet granted full use authorization for the other two vaccines from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
Read more: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-illinois-mask-teacher-vaccine-mandates-20210826-7fwd3sxlarfp7jeztlyggytbv4-story.html
Chicago will mostly be happy with these mandates.
The southern parts of our state will become enraged.
These changes are sooo important because our fully vaccinated rate is 53% the same as Florida.
Thank you Governor Pritzker!!!
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"I WILL NOT GET TESTED!!!! BOO HOO HOO!!!"
Inconsolable crying...
She is a Cancer Survivor, had COVID in December, but still won't get a vaccine.
