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COVID VACCINATIONS WILL be compulsory for all students in California, the state governor has announced – a first in the United States, where vaccine hesitancy has slowed efforts to end the pandemic.
The plan will be phased in as Food and Drug Administration regulators grant full approval for use in younger age groups.
California “will require our kids to get the Covid-19 vaccine to come to school,” said Governor Gavin Newsom.
“Our schools already require vaccines for measles, mumps and more. Why? Because vaccines work. This is about keeping our kids safe and healthy.”
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been granted full FDA approval for 16-year-olds and up.
“Once the FDA approves the vaccination in different cohorts, starting with 12 and above – grade seven to 12 – we will begin to apply that requirement in the next term,” Newsom said as he made his announcement at a local school.
“We are all exhausted by this pandemic,” said Newsom, saying the rules would apply to all students attending class in both the state or private education systems.
The rules are set to affect six million students in America’s most populous state, where 84% of all eligible residents have had at least one dose of the vaccine.
Nearly 700,000 people have died in the United States from coronavirus, with vaccines, mask-wearing and shutdowns all becoming fiercely political issues.
“Schools are actually closed more frequently in those states that have not been more disciplined in terms in advancing more scientific and data-driven approaches to taming this disease,” Newsom said.
Pfizer and BioNTech last week said they had begun submitting data to the FDA for the highly-anticipated authorization of their vaccine for children aged five to 11.
Children have been infected in greater numbers in the latest wave driven by the Delta variant, and inoculating younger people is seen as key to keeping schools open and helping thwart the pandemic.
The Pfizer vaccine received full, formal approval in the US in August and is technically available to younger children if prescribed by a doctor.
Pfizer and BioNTech are also testing their vaccine on children as young as two.
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Oh no, don’t tell me the boom is over already. I’ve already put my deposit on a 2 bed apartment in Castleknock for €580,000…
I wonder if anyone has tried to upscale Lego and make a full sized house out of it?
Brickies would earn a fine pay cheque if payed per block layed.
James May made a TV programme a couple of years ago, doing just that. Even the interior fixtures, fittings and furnishings were made out of it.
I bet if they started changing land back to agricultural they’d start building
Building game is f##ked,builders refuse to pay agreed rates,or
Employ irish tradesmen on site in priory hall in Dublin. And we all know what happened there, cheap work is not good work.
We make property expensive by making bringing it to verge of extinction… Kaaaaachiing suckers.. Snort snort dine wine pick billion out of A-Hole con twist deceive repeat con twist decieve repeat snort snort pop pop bonuses party.
It’s feasible that it’s down to planning permission lag. Could the Journal x-ref this with planning permissions ready to go in Dublin and other areas?
Artificially choke supply with a high demand and prices will rocket.
Go, FG/Lab – banks, developers and estate agents are loving this (your BFF’s). Everyone else, not so much.
Great job government
Loosening of post Priory Hall regulations for one off domestic dwellings are reportedly in the pipeline soon. Surely the potential to save tens of thousands by delaying a few months would be enough of a carrot to account for a slump.
Why are we not building with hemp? Hemp had ability to store carbon, reversing climate change, and does not require buildings to be heated, lowering co2 again, and saving everyone a money except the energy companies… two guesses as to who is anti hemp
Who?
Hold on – how can this be true? For the last three weeks and more the Journal has been bigging up the great resurgence in property values. JobBridge Joan told her party conference that the economy is in recovery and that “the cranes have reappeared on our skylines”. Surely we are headed to the promised land, and milk and honey awaits us VERY SOON. Live horse and you will get grass. It is always a little sad when the hype and downright dishonesty is exposed – hard not to feel a bit let down – YET AGAIN.
Bob the trainee.
NAMA knocked good houses and housing estates down for what, could they have not put the homeless into them?
No one cares if they did they stand up to this government and say no more?
There are 440,000 getting a dole payment you know?
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