President Biden acknowledged on Thursday evening that he and many other vaccinated Americans are “frustrated” with the 80 million Americans who have declined immunization against the coronavirus.
. The vast majority of the people who have become seriously ill have not been vaccinated, since the coronavirus vaccines are highly effective at preventing serious illness and death.
Biden also called on the Department of Labor to issue a rule requiring all private businesses employing more than 100 people to mandate vaccinations for their workers, or to administer weekly testing for those who refuse. Hospitals that participate in the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs must also vaccinate their estimated 17 million employees.
The new measures also include a preparation for offering booster shots to recipients of the two-dose mRNA vaccines; the Pfizer vaccine, in particular, appears not to be as effective against Delta. Booster shots are nevertheless contingent on approval from the Food and Drug Administration, which has not yet been granted.
In an effort to keep schools open, Biden also promised to reimburse school districts that have imposed mask mandates in contravention of the bans by Republican governors enjoining school districts not to make facial coverings mandatory. He also called on states to require vaccines for all school employees, which some Democratic governors have already done and which most Republican governors have declined to do.
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