The health order now includes booster requirements for people who work in higher-risk settings, including adult care facilities, adult day programs, dental offices, home health care workers and pharmacists, as well as workers who visit such settings, like police officers, paramedics, emergency medical technicians and lawyers whose clients are in jails.
to mask mandates for fully vaccinated people in offices and gyms. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, everyone must be masked indoors in non-household settings.San Francisco also will require that attendees and staff of indoor mega-events have their booster shots beginning Feb. 1.
The San Francisco 42-page health order’s language is vague and has already created confusion among the area’s first responders, who. It was also not immediately clear if the booster requirements also apply to firefighters, who are also EMTs or paramedics. The San Francisco Fire Department union said it is looking into the new order to see how it might impact its membership. Meanwhile, thereported that in December, 60 firefighters have contracted the virus, including 40 active cases.
The order defines high-risk settings as care or living settings that involve many people, including general acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly, homeless shelters, jails and juvenile justice centers.
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