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COVID-19 Employee Testing: TAG Addresses Your Questions
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss COVID-19 tests and the updated Risk Matrix (things are getting better). Read more below. Since the White House announced that all federal employees need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by November 22, 2021, the USDA is now required to collect proof of vaccination from each employee through a…
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REGEN-COV Showing Positive Signs for COVID Treatment
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss a new COVID-19 treatment. Read more below. The most recent report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) shows that COVID-19 children cases are rising in the U.S. In fact, children with COVID-19 account for almost 27% of all reported US weekly cases. In Texas and Florida, the…
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Mu Variant Not a New Strain in U.S.
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we look at the Mu variant and the Flu Vaccine. Read more below. S. COVID-19 cases have reached 40 million with 4 million of those cases arising from the last 4 weeks. The number is set to be much higher as the 4 million were those identified with a COVID-19…
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TAG Risk Matrix Shows Both Positive and Negative Trends
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we look at the Risk Matrix. Read more below. In Flu Season News: According to the WHO global flu update (for the first half of August), flu levels are seeming to remain low in both hemispheres. While there has been an increase in India and Nepal, flu elsewhere is sporadic.…
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Considering a Vaccine Mandate? New Research says Consider Natural Immunity as Well
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss natural immunity from the COVID-19 virus. Read more below. COVID-19 outbreak in California school traced to unvaccinated teacher. Half of the elementary school students in an unvaccinated teacher’s classroom developed COVID-19 after the teacher — infected and symptomatic — worked for 2 days and read to the students…
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Employee Wellness: Summer’s End Brings New COVID Questions and Stressors.
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the newly surging COVID questions and stressors of employees and the impact on your business. Read more below. We’ve received many questions about the different Variants of Concern that are being discussed in the news; last Thursday, we discussed this and you can read more here. The FDA…
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An In-Depth Look at COVID-19 Variants of Concern
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we provide an in-depth look at COVID-19 Variants of Concern and the findings of TAG’s weekly Risk Matrix Analysis. Read more below. Yesterday’s White House Press Briefing has highlighted and detailed the U.S. plan “to deliver booster COVID-19 shots for all fully vaccinated US adults who completed their two-dose mRNA…
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Contaminated-Water Action Plan Critical Prep for Hurricane Season
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss why developed countries, including the U.S., need to see Nigeria’s cholera outbreak as a cautionary warning. Read more below. Sources: US to recommend COVID vaccine boosters at 8 months – U.S. health experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months…
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TAG’s Take on New CDC Guidance and What’s Coming Down the Road
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss CDC’s new guidance for fully vaccinated people to mask indoors in high-risk areas, and mask and be tested if exposed to a person with COVID-19. We also look at TAG’s COVID-19 Risk Matrix to better understand what is happening around the country. Read more below. The C.D.C now…
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Risk Matrix
In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we look at TAG’s COVID-19 Risk Matrix to better understand what is happening around the country. Read more below. As global COVID-19 cases have risen by 12% in the last week (CIDRAP), the WHO chief is sounding the alarm that we may be going into the “early stages of another…