Biden Pushes Vaccine Mandates To Boost US Economy
US president Joe Biden on Thursday championed Covid-19 vaccination requirements, determined that the roughly 67 million unvaccinated American adults must receive the shot even as he acknowledged that mandates were not his “first instinct”.
r Biden had ruled out such requirements before taking office in January, but they now are a tactic he feels forced into using by a stubborn slice of the public that has refused to be inoculated and has thus jeopardised the lives of others and the nation’s economic recovery.
“There is no other way to beat the pandemic than to get the vast majority of the American people vaccinated,” Mr Biden said in suburban Chicago at an event promoting the mandates.
“While I didn’t race to do it right away, that’s why I’ve had to move toward requirements.”
Look, I know that vaccination requirements are a tough medicine — unpopular to some, politics for others — but they’re lifesaving,…
