California officials have quietly released an amendment to an Aug. 5 order requiring all workers who provide services or are employed in health care facilities to be vaccinated. The mandate now includes visitors to indoor health care facilities. Released on Aug. 26, the amended public health order states that facilities must verify that visitors are fully vaccinated or have had a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours for unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated visitors. Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks also announced this week that she would hold back her proposed vaccine verification bill, AB 455, from moving forward in the State Legislature until 2022. Originally a transportation bill meant to address the San Francisco Bay Bridge Corridor, AB 455 was thoroughly amended to become a bill requiring employers to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or weekly testing of employees, prior to its removal by Wicks for consideration next year. The new state health care mandate applies …