The AFL-CIO labor federation is pushing for the government to enact the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s long-delayed Covid standard for health care even as the federal public health emergency related to the pandemic is officially set to end May 11.
Rebecca Reindel, AFL-CIO director of safety, said government data shows about 18 nursing home workers are dying each week from the virus.
“The ending of the public health emergency does not mean that the risk for health-care workers’ exposures to Covid disappears and it should not prevent the government from its responsibility to protect those at greatest risk, as ...
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