President Joe Biden speaks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House grounds in Washington on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, about the COVID-19 response and vaccination program.
Case numbers have gone up in parts of the country where vaccination rates remain low, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. That has some public health officials worried that the administration is not being aggressive enough in waging what the president calls a “wartime effort” to ensure that the population of the United States is protected.
In his speech, Biden said his administration was not giving up on persuading people that vaccination was in their best interests, and in the interest of the country. But he made no mention of the need for states, private companies, schools and other institutions to begin requiring people who were reluctant to get vaccinated.
The debate comes as Biden and the United States face a precarious moment days after narrowly missing his goal of having 70% of adults at least partly vaccinated by July 4. By the end of the week, nearly 160 million Americans — not quite half the population — will be fully vaccinated. But vaccination rates have plunged from where they were in the spring, and some parts of the South and the Midwest continue to struggle to inoculate their populations.
All of the steps he outlined in his speech are avenues his government has already pursued: door-to-door outreach to get Americans vaccinated; a push to provide vaccines to primary care doctors; bolstering efforts to get vaccines to pediatricians and other providers who serve younger people so that adolescents ages 12-18 can get their shots; expanded mobile clinic efforts and workplace changes.
The idea of requiring vaccinations as a condition of employment or status as a student can be a politically volatile idea, which could backfire on Biden if he embraces it too aggressively, Emanuel said. “The government is not now nor will we be supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a credential,” Psaki said at the time. “There will be no federal vaccinations database and no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential.”
Yahoo go hell and this shit vaccine not me
The continuous begging and pleading from Plugs and his Adm only produces more skeptics. Trust in out gov is at all time low, and after the last 20yrs, for damn good reason.
This virus and diebetes going kill me all have said go hell
Don’t give a shit
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