New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked bar and restaurant owners and other private business leaders to require all patrons to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before they’re allowed to enter after seeing a “fourfold” increase in daily positive cases to more than 2,000 in...
Owners and operators of all 41 Broadway theaters will require vaccinations for audience members, performers, backstage crew and staff for all performances through October 2021, The Broadway League announced on Friday (July 30). The League announcement noted that audience members must also wear masks inside...
President Joe Biden has called on state and local leaders to make $100 payments to newly vaccinated Americans, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. States can choose to provide these payments “as an extra incentive to boost vaccination rates, protect communities and save lives,” the...
Not even Hollywood magic is enough to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from shutting down TV and movie sets. Questions about vaccinations and positive tests are forcing production of movies and TV shows into sometimes short, sometimes extended hiatus. “House of the Dragon,” the prequal to...
After months of steady progress, with vaccines being given, Main Streets reopening and homebound consumers leaping at the chance to get back out there again, the Delta variant of COVID-19 has come to call, with 49 out of 50 states reporting a spike in cases,...
Companies with office workers returning to in-person offices in the fall might be set back by the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, which have had the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommending that even vaccinated people wear masks indoors in high-risk scenarios, CNBC...
They tried the carrot — motivating consumers to get their vaccines with free doughnuts, time off from work, discounts on consumer goods. And the incentives, paired with consumers’ overwhelming desire to get back out there to start living their post-pandemic lives, did a good job. As...
The Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on vaccinated Americans and people around the world who were just starting to get used to going wherever they wanted without a mask. Representatives from almost 60 medical groups — such as the American Nurses Association...
Just when many people thought it was safe to ditch the masks and return to life as they knew it before the COVID-19 pandemic, the delta variant of the coronavirus is threatening to turn back the clock to the spring of 2020, when lockdowns and...
