Facebook parent of Meta Platforms will stop insisting that employees have Covid booster shots to come to their US facilities, a CNBC spokesman said Friday.
Technology companies have started a program to lure their employees back to their corporate campuses. Meta, along with Microsoft, hosted a comprehensive opening of US offices on Monday.
“We reviewed our requirements at the beginning of March to comply with the CDC guidelines, and now the Covid-19 upgrades are no longer required to be implemented, although highly recommended,” a spokesman said in an email. “The first requirement for vaccination (one or two rifle series) remains.”
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About-face comes less than three months after a social media operator announced rules for returning to office.
A Meta spokesman did not comment on the change.
In California, where Meta has its headquarters, 71% of people are fully vaccinated, and 35% receive a stimulant gun, according to New York Times data. The number of cases has dropped since January, according to newspaper reports.
Apple, also based in the California area of the San Francisco Bay Area, is demanding that employees show evidence of receiving an inspiring firearm, the Verge news website website reported in January.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a second shot of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna for people aged 50 or older for at least four months after receiving the first booster.