The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has stopped setting rules aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19 in hospitals and health clinics in order to shift the agency's focus on more infectious diseases, according to a notice released Tuesday by the Labor Department to direct.
OSHA submitted the draft final Covid-19 rule for healthcare facilities to the White House Office of Management and Budget in December 2022, where it remained until Tuesday. The agency has since developed a more comprehensive infectious disease standard for health care workers, which is currently under review.
The postponement is the result of the agency's decision to focus its efforts on publishing…