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The Big Three 11-9-21
1 Days after a federal judge put a freeze on Biden’s jab mandate for private businesses with more than 100 employees, The White House is telling businesses to ignore the ruling and implement it anyway.
“People should not wait,”White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during a briefing. “They should continue to move forward and make sure they’re getting their workplace vaccinated.”
- Republican attorneys general in at least 26 states have challenged President Joe Biden’s vaccine and testing requirements in five different U.S. appeals courts.
2 As energy prices soar, the Biden administration is considering shutting down yet another critical oil pipeline.
One in Michigan..
The Biden administration isreportedlystudying the impact of shutting down the Line 5 pipeline, which transports crude oil and other petroleum products from Canada to the United States.
Not only would ceasing Line 5's operations likely drive up energy prices in Michigan —which have already spiked 50% in one year— but closing the pipeline would also cost thousands of workers their jobs.
3 Newaygo Public Schools announced yesterday that they’ll be closed today through Monday, Nov. 15.
Superintendent Jeff Wright says "several factors" go into the decision, but didn’t give any other immediate details.
Ludington public schools have closed too.
Saginaw Township Community Schools was closed on Monday.
At first, the blame might be leaning towards COVID-19, but a district spokesperson told ABC12 News that a large number of staff members had negative reactions to the COVID-19 booster that they received over the weekend.
According to the CDC, some of the most common side effects of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 booster shot are pain at the injection site, fatigue, muscle pain, headache and fever also, the chills and nausea.
Recent data from the CDC shows that among 12,500 people who received a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, 79%t reported those local reactions, such as pain and itching at injection site, while 74% reported the systemic reactions like muscle pain and fatigue.
The district also said that what complicates the situation even more is the substitute teacher shortage, which is why the district had to completely shut down.
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