Unvaccinated workers in schools, health care facilities and other settings with a high risk of COVID transmission will no longer have to test for the virus under updated workplace guidance from the California Department of Public Health.
Starting Saturday, unvaccinated employees and those who are not up to date on their booster vaccinations will not be required to submit to a weekly COVID test.
According to the CDPH, the change will align the state’s workplace safety guidance with current federal health guidance.
Vaccination is still required by the state for workers in health care facilities, long-term care facilities and prisons. Health care workers have been required to get vaccinated against COVID since August 2021.
CDPH Director and state Public Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon argued that the testing requirement is no longer necessary due to the state’s high vaccination rate and vaccines being available to every age group older than 6 months.
“While unvaccinated individuals remain at greatest risk of serious health consequences from COVID-19 infection, weekly testing of unvaccinated groups is no longer slowing the spread as it did earlier in the pandemic due to the more infectious Omicron variants,” Aragon said.
State officials continue to recommend that employers and schools provide testing to employees and students as needed. Some 10 million at-home COVID tests have already been distributed to the state’s K-12 schools, according to the CDPH.
As of Sept. 8, 72.1 percent of all California residents have completed their initial vaccination series, according to CDPH data. In addition, 58.8 percent of those who are fully vaccinated have also gotten at least one booster dose.
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First money to the Californians …
Then teachers no longer are forced to have the vaccine ….
Now health workers don’t need to test weekly.
Alex what is, ‘tell me it is election season without using those words’.
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More bribery.
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And yet there will still be trolls and fools who vote for this attention seeking baboon.
If people would do their own research on CAPD website, you would have found out that a month ago it was “recommended” and not “required” like before. But I do understand that there’s a majority of people who rather not do their own research and be told of what they can and cannot do.
If people did their own research the COVID hysteria would never have reached the level that it has.
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