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General Electric, Boeing and the Transportation Security Administration are among the companies and agencies that have announced vaccine mandates in an effort to comply with the order

New Orleans has some of the strictest COVID-19 guidelines in the south, but it also relies on its multi-billion-dollar tourism industry. The city's tourism group says the reactions to the mandate have been polarizing.

At least three people in Virginia are now dead in connection with an outbreak of hepatitis A that has been linked to the Famous Anthony’s restaurant chain, according to a report.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in children aged 5 to 11 on Friday, a critical step toward beginning vaccinations for the age group.

Northern California health officials shut down another In-N-Out Burger restaurant location Tuesday for allowing indoor dining without checking patrons for proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test.

A panel of U.S. health advisers on Tuesday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, moving the U.S. closer to beginning vaccinations in children ages 5 to 11.

Walmart Inc's U.S. corporate workers will start working at the retailer's offices Nov. 8 after more than a year and a half, a company memo showed on Friday.

A crowd of current and former American Airlines employees and their supporters protested outside the carrier's headquarters on Friday over the company's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

A few hundred General Electric employees walked of the job on Friday in protest of the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate

The Allied Pilots Association and Southwest Airlines Pilots Association cited a significant increase in reports to the Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) about distractions in the cockpit, including discussions about the airlines' vaccine mandates.

Health care company Advocate Aurora Health has fired more than 400 employees because they haven’t been vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to reports.

Onions imported from Chihuahua, Mexico and sold in the United States have been linked to a salmonella outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday.

The potential production problems with Novavax's vaccine could hamper the efforts of the COVAX initiative, which forecast in September that it will be able to provide low and middle-income countries 1.425 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to by the end of the year and 2 billion doses by the first quarter of 2022.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said Tuesday that Arizona, Utah, and South Carolina could lose their state-based authority to oversee workplace safety due to their unwillingness to adopt certain COVID-19 rules relating to health care workers.

More than 100 Washington State Patrol employees were terminated after refusing to comply with the state’s vaccine mandate.

Some experts are wondering if the booster campaign is a bit of a missed opportunity to specifically target delta and its likely descendants.

Vaccine mandate would cause more confusion for trucking industry, according to logistics company JB Hunt.

Southwest and American Airlines, both based out of Texas, reportedly plan to continue requiring the vaccine for its employees despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s new ban on vaccine mandates this week.