New York Stock Exchange becomes last company to mandate COVID vaccine

TheNew York Stock Exchange on Wednesdayjoined the list of companies that require their employees to vaccinate against COVID-19.

According to an internal memo obtained by Reuters, the company is demanding that anyone entering the Wall Street trading floor be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by Sept. 13.

This is because several major companies are adopting vaccination policies due to the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States due to the Delta variant.

In recent weeks, major companies, including Google, Uber Technologies Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Facebook Inc, have said that all of their U.S. employees must be vaccinated before entering offices after new guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which require full disclosure. vaccinated persons wear masks.

The New York Stock Exchange demands that employees who have access to the Wall Street trading floor be vaccinated against the coronavirus

The scholarship will grant exemptions for medical or religious reasons, CNBC reported.

The company is also expanding randomized on-site COVID testing to include vaccinated individuals.

The NYSE previously required visitors and people entering for IPOs to show proof of vaccination.

As of Wednesday, that requirement has been extended to those working on the 16,000-square-foot trading floor, which is home to several hundred traders on an average day.

The NYSE’s new vaccine requirement is effective Sept. 13.

NBC Universal and McDonald’s Corp. also announced on Wednesday that they need vaccinations.

The scholarship will grant waivers for medical or religious reasons and also extend the on-site randomized COVID testing to vaccinated individuals

McDonald’s also announced a vaccination requirement on Wednesday. The company said US-based office workers should get the coronavirus shot, but the policy doesn’t apply to restaurant workers

McDonald’s said US-based office workers should get the coronavirus shot, but the policy doesn’t apply to restaurant workers, whether they’re company-owned or franchised.

McDonald’s Corp is also delaying the return of employees to its offices until at least October 11 to give employees time to get vaccinated.

The company said the vaccination requirement does not apply to employees of McDonald’s restaurants, whether they are company-owned and franchised.

NBCUniversal requires U.S. employees who return to their offices to be fully vaccinated, the Comcast Corp media company said, adding that the company will require employees to provide details of vaccination status.

This is because the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise across the country and hospitals in several states say they are reaching breaking point.

On Tuesday, the US registered 106,871 new cases of the virus with a seven-day moving average of 116,722, the highest figure since Feb. 6.

It’s also a 214 percent increase from the average of 37,056 reported three weeks ago, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.

Deaths, which are a lagging indicator, have also risen after being stable for several weeks.

On Tuesday, the US registered 106,871 new cases of the virus with a seven-day moving average of 116,722, the highest figure since Feb. 6.

The number of deaths has also risen with 819 recorded on Tuesday at an average of 520, an 89% increase from the average of 274 seen 21 days earlier.

There were 819 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday with an average of 520, an increase of 89 percent from the 274 average seen 21 days earlier.

However, the death rate still remains well below previous peaks, with half as many deaths as the average of 1,200 recorded during the November 2020 peak before COVID-19 vaccines were made available.

The rapidly escalating wave, caused by the Indian ‘Delta’ variant, has led to a shortage of nurses and other frontline personnel in virus hotspots who can no longer keep up with the flow of unvaccinated patients and lose employees to burnout and lucrative outages. of the state.

At least four states — Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana and Oregon — all currently have more people hospitalized with COVID-19 than during any other wave, and nursing staff are under heavy pressure.

About 715,000 doses of vaccine are administered every day, the highest number since July 7

Meanwhile, the rollout of vaccinations in the US has accelerated, with the country now averaging more than 700,000 vaccinations per day – the highest rate in more than a month.

The daily average for Americans getting their first doses is over 500,000, the highest in more than two months, according to the White House’s COVID-19 data director.

More than 195 million Americans have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, representing just over half of the population.