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OSHA Sunsets COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, Spurring Calls For Long-Term Rule


December 22, 2021 at 03:53 PM
OSHA Dec. 21 allowed its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) for healthcare workers to expire, spurring criticism from healthcare and workers’ rights advocates and calls for the agency to “expeditiously” issue a permanent standard to protect frontline medical workers amid a fresh spike in cases from the Omicron variant.

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