Tag: covid variant

  • How Effective Are the COVID Vaccines Against the Variants?

    The Title Key Points: Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the efficacy of the COVID vaccines against the current variants. Read more below. The NYT has also put out an article on “Can the COVID Vaccine Protect Me Against Virus Variants?” In non-COVID news and essential in the public health realm, the…

  • Global Observations on COVID-19

    Global Observations on COVID-19 Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the global status of COVID-19. Read more below.  TAG has released a toolkit for “Dialing Back” that provides recommendations on phased-in reopening. Contact TAG if you are interested. We have updated the 50-State Food and Agriculture Worker Vaccination Eligibility Chart. In all…

  • Is the US in a Fourth Wave of COVID?

    Is the US in a Fourth Wave of COVID? Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the “fourth wave” of COVID in the US and CDC’s new cleaning guidance. Read more below. At this time, the B117 variant of COVID-19 (first identified from the UK) has become the dominant COVID-19 strain in the…

  • COVID-19 Variants Raise Questions

    Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss COVID-19 variants Identified around the world continuing to raise questions, those studied appear to be variations in the spike protein. Read More below. When referring to individuals who are “fully vaccinated”, this refers to individuals that have waited at least two weeks post receiving (a) the…

  • Determining Your Employee Vaccination Strategy

    Key Points Points: Today, we discuss Determining Your Employee Vaccination Strategy in the Recommendations for Industry. The first two cases of the South African COVID-19 variant (B.1.351) have been detected in the United States, specifically South Carolina. Both individuals are “in different regions of the state and do not appear to be connected.” Neither were…