UUP COVID-19 Weekly Digest - Week of 10/31/21

Welcome back to the UUP COVID-19 Weekly Digest! In this week's edition, we dive into information on New Jersey hospital mandates pertaining to booster shots, national COVID cases falling, the children's COVID-19 vaccine being approved, and much more! To find out more, refer to the links below. See you next week!

New Jersey News: 

• N.J. hospital mandates booster shots for employees who received J&J vaccine
• N.J. reports 1,008 COVID cases, 1 death. Number of counties with ‘high’ transmission continues to shrink.

National News: 

• America's falling Covid case rate, in 3 charts
• As US COVID Cases Fall, Halloween Brings More Fun, Less Fear

Global News: 

• A World Remembers: Memorials honor COVID-19's 5 million dead
• This country just found its first Covid case. Now it's preparing for a potential lockdown

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Vaccination News: 

• Covid Shots for Kids Will Narrow the Biggest Racial Vaccine Gaps
• FDA authorizes Pfizer's Covid vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11, shots could begin early next week with CDC clearance

Thank you for reading!