<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Vancouver paramedic said her team struggled to get a patient with an arterial bleed into the hospital.</li><li>British Columbia Ambulance Service reported delays during the protests.</li><li>On September 13, British Columbia's provincial health officer ordered proof of <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword> <keyword id="11894069" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vaccination" source="Orion">vaccination</keyword> to access businesses and events.</li></ul>While thousands gathered on September 1 outside British Columbia hospitals to protest COVID-19 vaccinations and passports, an ambulance carrying someone in critical condition struggled to access St. Paul's Hospital due to protesters blocking the driveway, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-paramedic-hospital-protests-1.6164508">the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) reported</a>.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Lasia Kretzel (@rhymeswpretzel) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1433177891093815299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2021</a></blockquote>A Vancouver paramedic with more than three decades of experience - <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-paramedic-hospital-protests-1.6164508">whose identity CBC kept confidential</a> - said her team picked up a patient who was suffering from an arterial bleed from an industrial accident. The trip from Vancouver's waterfront, where the patient was working on a construction site, to the hospial normally takes around eight minutes but took more than twice as long, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-paramedic-hospital-protests-1.6164508">CBC reported</a>.British Columbia Ambulance Service <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-paramedic-hospital-protests-1.6164508">told CBC</a> that there were several reports of delays as paramedics navigated the congestion."I watched someone start to bleed to death when they didn't have to, when time would have made all the difference in the world," the paramedic, who is disheartened and on the verge of quitting, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-paramedic-hospital-protests-1.6164508">told CBC</a>. "That was my last straw."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Sonia Aslam (@SoniaSAslam) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1433200351805460482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2021</a></blockquote>Protests against COVID-19-related public health measures have continued throughout the month, particularly in response to <a href="https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021HLTH0053-001659">a September 13 order from British Columbia's provincial health officer</a>, Dr. Bonnie Henry, requiring individuals to provide proof of vaccination to access many businesses and recreational events.

Anti-vaxxers in Vancouver delayed an ambulance carrying someone bleeding out from getting to the hospital

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A new analysis from Indeed Hiring Lab found that more job postings are mandating COVID-19 <keyword id="622690" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Vaccinations">vaccinations</keyword>.</li><li>That's likely due in part to more companies mandating vaccines amid the Delta variant surge.</li><li>Vaccine mandates across entire sectors could encourage hesitant workers to get the shot by making it harder to switch jobs</li></ul>As the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-unvaccinated-could-lead-to-variant-worse-than-delta-2021-8">Delta variant</a> continues to surge across the US, jobseekers may need to add something else to their resume: COVID-19 vaccination.That's according to a <a href="https://www.hiringlab.org/2021/08/12/job-postings-requiring-vaccination-climb/">new analysis</a> by economist AnnElizabeth Konkel for Indeed Hiring Lab, who delved into the job site's postings in the week leading up to August 7. The share of postings per million that explicitly required a COVID-19 vaccine increased by 34% from the month before, and the share of postings that require vaccinations (but not explicitly a COVID-19 jab) went up 90%.And jobs in industries that historically haven't required vaccinations are increasingly requiring that prospective employees are inoculated.For instance, in February, only 33.3 jobs per million in education required vaccination, but in July, 2,166 did - a rate 65 times higher. The biggest increase was in software development, with the share of jobs requiring vaccination skyrocketing by over 10,000% from February to July.Even so, that's still a very small share of total job openings on Indeed, making up just about one in a thousand, according to the report.The rise of the more-infectious Delta variant has increasingly prompted employers to enact vaccine mandates, with federal and state agencies, alongside private businesses, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/where-implemented-vaccine-mandate-work-bars-delta-covid-2021-7?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">requiring</a> that their employees get the shot.March polling by workplace technology firm Envoy <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/most-americans-want-employers-to-mandate-covid-vaccine-survey-finds-2021-3">found that</a> most American workers wouldn't come back to the office unless there was a <keyword id="11715220" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vaccine-mandate">vaccine mandate</keyword>, especially those in more white-collar industries like technology. And <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/covid-vaccine-mandates-sweep-across-corporate-america-as-delta-surges.html">CNBC reports</a> that over a dozen large corporations are requiring that at least some, if not all, of their workers be vaccinated. But, as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hot-job-market-preventing-employers-from-mandating-covid-vaccines">Insider's Aki Ito reports</a>, the current hot labor market may actually be dissuading companies from requiring their employees to get vaccinated, since it's easier than ever for them to just leave and take a role where vaccines aren't mandated.Importantly, that's more prevalent for blue-collar workers; one example is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-requires-vaccinations-for-certain-corporate-employees-2021-7">Walmart</a> mandating vaccinations for corporate workers, but not those working in stores or warehouses.Ito's analysis comes amid <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/record-number-workers-quitting-in-third-month-here-to-stay-2021-8">yet another month</a> of near-record-high quits, with millions of workers (especially blue-collar ones) leaving their jobs - marking a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/businesses-dont-want-to-fire-anyone-but-workers-still-quitting-2021-8">record-high percentage</a> of job separations coming from quits.As Ito argues, that only shows the need for mandates: Creating industry and sectorwide norms will only encourage more workers to get the vaccine - and reduce the number of jobs they can flee to that don't require it.

More and more job openings are requiring you to get the COVID-19 vaccine

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="62649" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Illinois">Illinois</keyword>' new <keyword id="54639" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="vaccination">vaccination</keyword> portal allows people to look up their vaccine records online.</li><li>The website isn't entirely accurate and has shown people incorrect vaccination records. </li><li>Experian, which has exposed millions of personal data of millions, will help verify identities.</li></ul>Illinois' <a href="https://idphportal.illinois.gov/s/?language=en_US">new vaccine portal</a>, which is supposed to let people look up their vaccine records online, often gives inaccurate information about vaccination statuses and uses Experian, a credit reporting agency with a history of security breaches, to verify people's identities.With an increasing number of social events and employers requiring proof of vaccination, from Chicago Public Schools to the Illinois State Fair, Illinois Department of Health director Ngozi Ezike said the <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-launches-online-covid-vaccination-portal-vax-verify/">portal could help people prove their vaccination status when they need to</a>. But the portal's helpfulness is doubtful so far, since the website often gives people inaccurate information about their vaccination status. When I tried to access my vaccination records (I got two doses of the Moderna vaccine in Illinois), the website showed that I had only received a single dose. <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/08/13/vax-verify-illinois-covid/">Others vaccinated in Illinois experienced similar problems</a>, with CBS Chicago reporting that the vaccine portal indicated for many people that they had received no COVID-19 vaccines when they were actually fully vaccinated.The IDPH website noted that <a href="http://www.dph.illinois.gov/immunizationsupport">human error, such as providers typing in a name or address wrong</a>, can prevent vaccination records from showing up properly on the site. "At this time, it does not appear to be effective," William Kresse, a fraud expert at Governors State University, said. "However, given some time to make complete data entry, testing and verification, it could be a safe way for people to look up their vaccine records."Experian, the credit reporting agency that the website uses to verify people's identities, has had several security breaches, including one in Brazil that resulted in millions of people's personal data being offered for sale online and another in <a href="https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/credit-information-of-millions-of-south-africans-and-businesses-leaked-in-a-massive-experian-data-breach/">South Africa leaked data of 24 million people </a>and was caused by Experian giving personal information to a fraudster posing as a client.Kresse said third parties are always at risk of mishandling data, which could make people's private information susceptible to theft or hacking attempts."Since 2017 all of the credit bureaus have added greater rigor to their systems. So I would not say that Experian's record - in and of itself - should be of any major concern."

Illinois' new vaccine-verification portal is glitchy and uses a credit reporting agency with past security breaches to verify people's identities

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="6762469" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="TikTok">TikTok</keyword> user in a viral video said <keyword id="72226" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-York-City">New York City</keyword>'s new vaccine passport app allowed him to upload a photo of a "rotten mango" as proof. </li><li>The app, which allows users to digitally store their vaccine cards for access to vaccine-only spaces, was launched this month.</li><li>A spokesperson for Mayor Bill de Blasio previously said the app was not meant to verify the information.</li></ul>A viral TikTok appeared to show New York City's new "NYC COVID SAFE" new vaccine passport application accepting a photo of a rotten mango as proof of vaccination.In the video posted Friday, TikTok user Alex Wong narrated a screen recording showing him using the app, randomly selecting that he received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on June 2. Then, when the application asked for a photo of his vaccination card, Wong snapped a photo of a rotten mango. The app then asked Wong to "agree" that the information he submitted was accurate. Once he confirmed, the app appeared to accept the photo as proof of vaccination; however, the photo of the mango is then displayed prominently where a photo of a properly uploaded vaccine card would normally be shown.<blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@alexdwong/video/6995934572076748037" data-video-id="6995934572076748037" style="max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a target="_blank" title="@alexdwong" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@alexdwong">@alexdwong</a> <a title="greenscreenvideo" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/greenscreenvideo">##greenscreenvideo</a> NYC stick to Excelsior pass <a target="_blank" title="♬ original sound - Alex Wong" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6995934671439678213">♬ original sound - Alex Wong</a> </section> </blockquote> The application is separate from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-covid-digital-vaccine-passport-excelsior-pass-msg-2021-3">New York State's Excelsior Pass</a> application, which allows individuals who received their COVID-19 vaccination in the state to carry virtual proof of vaccination separate from the paper card issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.As <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/prove-vaccination-status-some-new-yorkers-need-update-their-excelsior-pass">Gothamist</a> previously reported, other users have reported having a similar result with the new New York City app, with the application accepting uploaded photos of items that aren't vaccination cards - like restaurant menus. A spokesperson for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio previously told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/privacy-efficacy-concerns-remain-new-york-s-vaccine-passport-apps-n1276037">NBC News</a> that the app was not meant to verify anyone's vaccination status, but was instead there to allow individuals to have a virtual place to store a photo of their virtual vaccination card."The NYC COVID Safe App was designed with privacy at the top of mind, and allows someone to digitally store their CDC card and identification," a spokesperson told NBC <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">News</keyword>. "Someone checking vaccination cards at the door to a restaurant or venue would see that those examples are not proper vaccine cards and act accordingly."The new app is part of a program announced by de Blasio at the beginning of August called Key to NYC. Under the program, individuals in the city will be required to show proof of vaccination to participate in indoor activities, like working out at gyms and dining at indoor restaurants. The program will begin Monday with enforcement beginning on September 13, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-expcted-require-proof-of-vaccination-indoor-dining-gyms-performances-2021-8">Insider previously reported</a>.

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Anti-vaxxers in Vancouver delayed an ambulance carrying someone bleeding out from getting to the hospital

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Illinois' new vaccine-verification portal is glitchy and uses a credit reporting agency with past security breaches to verify people's identities

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New York City's new vaccine passport app appeared to let a TikTok user upload a photo of a rotten mango as proof of vaccination

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