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The White House announced Thursday that the review and recommendation site Yelp is debuting a new feature to let users search for businesses by their vaccination requirements.

Businesses know vaccinations are a way to keep their workers and customers safe and to keep their doors open, Jeffrey Zients, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said at a news conference .

The new feature will allow users to search on Yelps website and mobile app for businesses with fully vaccinated workers and for those that require proof of vaccination to enter.

We support these vaccination requirements to protect workers, communities and the country, Zients said.

Big News. @Yelp will now allow users to filter restaurants, bars, spas, & more based on vaccine requirements or fully vaxxed staff. pic.twitter.com/em8dgVyzv5

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Big News. @Yelp will now allow users to filter restaurants, bars, spas, & more based on vaccine requirements or fully vaxxed staff. pic.twitter.com/em8dgVyzv5
Ben Wakana (@benwakana46) August 5, 2021

A Yelp spokeswoman told HuffPost that the company will be proactively monitoring Yelp pages of businesses that activate these attributes in order to help protect businesses that may experience backlash for their vaccination policies.

The past year and a half has been like no other, Yelp Vice President of User Operations Noorie Malik said in a statement. Both business owners and consumers have expressed interest in Yelp releasing vaccine-related attributes. For many months weve seen businesses implement vaccine requirements for both their customers and staff. As a result, weve also seen a rise in reviews primarily focused on peoples stance on COVID vaccinations rather than their actual experience with the business.

At Thursdays news conference, the White Houses coronavirus response team highlighted increasing vaccination rates, particularly in those regions of the country where COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are spiking.

The picture of the rise of coronavirus cases is particularly grim for the American South. Over the past seven days, Florida and Texas have accounted for about one-third of new cases and more than one-third of new hospitalizations across the country. Seven states that make up just a quarter of the U.S. population Florida, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi account for more than half of new cases and hospitalizations over the past week.

The U.S. saw about 864,000 coronavirus vaccinations go into arms over the past 24 hours, according to Zients, who said that figure was the highest single-day total since July 3. The bulk of them or around 585,000 were first shots.