No Test for You! In her announcement declaring Boston restaurants and entertainment venues must now require vaccine passports, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu also declared that testing was no longer an option for city employees mandated to get the COVID vaccination. Some of those employees are members of unions that had written agreements allowing for the testing alternative instead of the jab. Boston First Responders United, a group comprised of firefighters, police, and paramedics, say this is unethical and illegal. Shana Cottone from BFRU joins Dan.
President Biden on Omicron. President Biden laid out his administration’s strategy today to fight COVID-19 just as the CDC announced that the new Omicron variant is now the dominant strain of the virus in the U.S., making up 73.2% of new infections. With events being canceled again, schools going back to remote learning, and restaurants possibly closing their doors, can the President avoid another lockdown? Could we survive another one?
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