Shift Covid testing from draconian punishment to empowerment - STAT Instead of viewing Covid-19 testing as a means of limiting access, reframe it as an empowering tool to let people gather more confidently. Maaisha Osman STAT

Public health is at its best when it is pragmatic in the face of complex problems fraught with stigma and uncertainty, like moving in the direction of full vaccination in the face of many Americans’ entrenched or even defiant anti-vaccination sentiment.

The U.S. has new COVID vaccine rules for international travelers. Here's what to know The requirements set by the Biden administration take effect Nov. 8 and cover approved vaccines, exceptions for the unvaccinated and protocols after arrival. NPR.org

The U.S. has come up with new rules and regulations for travelers flying in from other countries, to take effect on Monday, November 8.

The new faces of Covid deaths The most recent group of 100,000 deaths is very different from the first, showing how the disease has shifted. And most were preventable. NBCNews

Younger, Southern, rural and white.

Those are increasingly the kinds of people who are dying of Covid-19, as the demographics of those hit hardest by the coronavirus have shifted since the pandemic first hit the United States. The country’s most recent, devastating Covid wave, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant, showed the strength of the virus even in the face of mounting vaccinations, with more than 100,000 deaths reported in the past three months.

Florida Delta Wave Cases Plunge, Leaving Record Deaths in Its Wake Despite most Floridians being vaccinated, the delta wave was by far the deadliest, coming as many shed masks and sought return to normalcy. Tony Pipitone NBC 6 South Florida

The delta wave of COVID-19 appears now to be done with Florida, which has the lowest infection rate over the last week among all states in the union.

De Blasio: Less Than 6% Of New York City Workforce Placed On Unpaid Leave Under Vaccine Mandate Mayor Bill de Blasio said 91% of the city's more than 300,000 employees are vaccinated. That leaves about 9,000 unvaccinated workers who were put on unpaid leave. reanderson13 CBS New York

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About 12,000 unvaccinated people have applied for medical or religious exemptions. In the meantime, they are working and being tested.

India's COVID Spike and Plummet. What Have We Learned? Experts discuss the country's second deadly wave Shannon Firth medpagetoday

The severity of India's second COVID-19 wave took the world by surprise. Cases skyrocketed, at one point accounting for roughly half of the total infections reported globally. Then, almost as quickly, the numbers plunged.

Hospital system temporarily blocked from placing workers with A federal judge in Chicago has temporarily blocked a hospital system from placing workers who were granted religious exemptions for getting the COVID-19 vaccine on unpaid leave. Mychael Schnell TheHill

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