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Increased Cases May Necessitate Re-masking Mandates
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the potential for increased case rates potentially necessitating re-masking mandates. What does that mean for you, your business, and your employees? Read more below! The Delta variant is the dominant COVID-19 variant, globally; in fact, global COVID-19 deaths have begun to rise with illnesses jumping over 10% over…
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Is Your Business Mindset-Shift Ready?
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss TAG’s new whitepaper on how the pandemic has led to a shift in worker mindsets and what that means for your business. Read more below. Although the CDC and FDA have both issued statements that a booster shot against COVID-19 is not needed (at this time, based on…
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U.S. Seeing Increased COVID Transmission Despite Vaccinations
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the trends being seen in the TAG Risk Matrices. Read more below! The global COVID-19 death toll has surpassed 4 million individuals, with this count being more-than-likely underreported. President Biden is making moves to bring about vaccination to more individuals living in the U.S., “including door-to-door outreach, sending…
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Encouraging Vaccines: COVID and Influenza
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss encouraging your workers to receive both the COVID and Influenza vaccines. Read more below! The FDA is hosting a webcast on Thursday July 08, 2021 (12:00 PM – 1:00PM ET) on “SARS-CoV-2: Host-pathogen interaction, vaccines and variants of concern” presented by Professor Miles W. Carroll (Head of Emerging…
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Where There’s (COVID) Smoke…
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the U.S. risk matrix and despite fairly steady trends, cautions in the workplace are still needed. Read more below. A recent study from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, published in Nature has found evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines may generate immune structures (through the…
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Percent of Vaccinated Can Determine Needed Protections
Key Points In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss how to implicate protections based off your employee’s vaccination status. Read more below. As the Delta variant’s prevalence rises throughout the country and throughout the world (especially in areas with lower vaccination rates), countries are tightening (or re-tightening) restrictions. In fact, India is currently tracking a…
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Study: Previously Infected May Not Need COVID Vaccine
In today’s Recommendations for industry, we discuss how previously infected individuals may not need the COVID vaccine. Read more below. The AP News reports that, nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the US are among unvaccinated individuals while only 0.1% of COVID-19 infections are “breakthrough” cases. In fact, Dr. Rochelle Walensky (CDC director) commented at a…
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No Red Flags, But Spaces to Watch
In today’s Recommendations for industry, we discuss some spaces to watch for (especially in the US) and its relation to the U.S. 50-State Risk Matrix. Read more here. A recent non-peer-reviewed preprint, as reported by CIDRAP has shown that the Delta and Gamma variants of COVID-19 are currently making up the largest shares of U.S.-specific…
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Delta Variant Gives Rise to New Cases
In today’s Recommendations for industry, we discuss the rise in Delta variant cases. Read more below. Additionally, due to an error in our system, we have also kept Friday’s Recommendations for Industry below which discusses how the Delta Variant is giving rise to new cases, and how our increased infectious disease understanding assists in mitigating…
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UK Seeing Delta Variant Increases
UK Seeing Delta Variant Increases Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the UK’s increasing cases of the Delta variant and Today being World Food Safety Day. Read more below. Today is World Food Safety Day. The June 7, 2021 observance aims to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and…