Multisociety statement on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination as a condition of employment for healthcare personnel

This consensus statement by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA), the Association for Professionals in Epidemiology and Infection Control (APIC), the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) recommends that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination should be a condition of employment for all healthcare personnel in facilities in the United States. Exemptions from this policy apply to those with medical contraindications to all COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States and other exemptions as specified by federal or state law. The consensus statement also supports COVID-19 vaccination of nonemployees functioning at a healthcare facility (eg, students, contract workers, volunteers, etc)

Friendship and faction in Sophocles: Greek political thinking and the Ajax, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus.

This study examines three plays of Sophocles in the context of Greek political ideas about personal and civic friendship and civil strife. The first chapter considers the contest for the arms in the Ajax in the context of fifth-century awards for outstanding valor in battle. The treatment of Ajax undermines the values that public commendation seeks to instill, by breaking the cycle of charis, or reciprocal favor, in which services to the community are recognized by rewards that strengthen the bond between citizen and polis. The second chapter describes the ideology of stasis in Alcaeus, Solon, Theognis, Herodotus, Thucydides, and drama, identifying common features, especially those relevant to the Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. The third chapter argues that stasis is the necessary context for interpreting the actions of both Antigone and Creon in the Antigone. The play presents Polyneices as a political exile, and Creon as a ruler whose political principles reflect both archaic attitudes toward stasis and the fifth-century ideal of good citizen. I look at Creon's privileging of political over personal friendship in light of contemporary ideas about $\phi\iota\lambda\acute\iota\alpha$, and at Antigone's actions as those of a political neutral during civil strife. The fourth chapter considers the implications of the Oedipus at Colonus' presentation of Oedipus as a morally innocent man unjustly deprived of his civil rights by Thebes. I discuss the association of strife with old age, Oedipus' promise of an Athens free from the pains of old age, the implicit comparison of Athens and Thebes, and the relationship of the play to the revolution of 411. This dissertation shows that Sophocles is a serious political thinker, who explores political issues not through identifiable allusions to contemporary figures and events, but through the situations forming the background to the action of his plays, and through carefully chosen language. Although Sophocles affirms traditional religious values in his explorations of the problems of faction, the issues explored in these plays go beyond the relationship between man and god. Sophocles has political interest that are both secular and contemporary.Ph.D.Classical literatureLanguage, Literature and LinguisticsUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/128221/2/8821591.pd