{"id":99190,"date":"2021-10-13T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=99190"},"modified":"2021-10-13T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:07:09","slug":"texas-governor-abbott-bans-all-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-by-all-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/10\/13\/texas-governor-abbott-bans-all-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-by-all-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Abbott Bans All COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates by All Entities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON \u2014 <\/span>Governor Greg Abbott of the southwestern U.S. state of Texas issued an executive order Monday banning all COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the state by any entity.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19,\u201d the order states.<\/p>\n

Abbott is one of several Republican governors in the United States who have clashed with President Joe Biden\u2019s initiatives to curb the nearly two-year long pandemic, including banning local governments and school districts from imposing mandatory face masks.<\/p>\n

President Biden issued an order last month directing all businesses with 100 or more employees to either get their employees fully vaccinated or face weekly testing, along with a mandatory vaccination order for all health care workers, federal employees and federal contractors.<\/p>\n

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President Joe Biden responds to a question after announcing from the White House in Washington, July 29, 2021, that millions of federal workers must show proof they’ve received a coronavirus vaccine or submit to regular testing and masking.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Two major Texas-based companies, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, have announced mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for their large workforces in recent days. U.S.-based technology giants Facebook and Google, which both maintain large offices in Texas, have also imposed mandatory vaccination orders on their employees.<\/p>\n

Abbott, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier this year, said in his order that \u201cvaccines are strongly encouraged for those eligible to receive one, but must always be voluntary for Texans.\u201d He said he will encourage the state legislature to enshrine his order into law during an upcoming special session.<\/p>\n

But Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said \u201cwe know that mandates work\u201d during an interview Monday on the cable news network CNN. Fauci said that although health officials are reluctant to issue such directives, he acknowledged that \u201csometimes mandates actually can help in that regard \u2014 as sensitive an issue as that is, it is really getting people more vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the sports world, the head coach of the National Hockey League\u2019s new Seattle Kraken franchise says five players have entered COVID-19 protocols and will not be with the team for Tuesday\u2019s season opener against the Las Vegas Knights. Dave Hakstol told reporters Monday that Jared McCann, Joonas Donskoi, Marcus Johansson and Jamie Oleksiak were placed on the protocol list that day, joining teammate Calle Jarnkrok, who was placed on the list just last week. Kraken General Manager Ron Francis told the Associated Press at the start of the team\u2019s pre-season training camp that the team\u2019s entire roster had been vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Also on Monday, unions in the western U.S. states of California and Oregon representing more than 24,000 nurses and other health care workers with health care consortium Kaiser Permanente announced their members have authorized a strike, an organized employee work stoppage, citing chronic understaffing and other poor working conditions exposed during the coronavirus pandemic and a new wage and benefits system they say will lead to lower pay and lesser benefits for newer employees.<\/p>\n

The unions are required to give Kaiser Permanente 10 days\u2019 notice before the strike begins, giving both sides time to reach a deal.<\/p>\n

Some information for this report came from the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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