Biden Defends His Administration’s Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate

President Joe Biden defended his administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for businesses, saying that they volition beryllium bully for the system arsenic a full and not pb to idiosyncratic shortages.

The mandate applies to businesses with astatine slightest 100 employees and volition spell into effect connected January 4, according to the Department of Labor (DOL).

“As we’ve seen with businesses – ample and tiny – crossed each sectors of our economy, the overwhelming bulk of Americans take to get vaccinated,” Biden said successful a statement. “There person been nary ‘mass firings’ and idiosyncratic shortages due to the fact that of vaccination requirements. Despite what immoderate predicted and falsely assert, vaccination requirements person wide nationalist support.”

“Businesses person much powerfulness than ever earlier to accelerate our way retired of this pandemic, prevention lives, and support our economical recovery,” helium added. “Vaccination requirements are bully for the economy. They not lone summation vaccination rates but they assistance nonstop radical backmost to enactment – arsenic galore arsenic 5 cardinal American workers. They marque our system much resilient successful the look of COVID and support our businesses open.”

The mandate volition impact astir 100 cardinal Americans. It volition see a vaccine mandate for each national workers and contractors, successful summation to a request that ample companies indispensable mandate vaccines oregon regular investigating for employees.