President Joe Biden touted the success of mandates in spurring vaccination against COVID-19 in the United States on Thursday but said more needed to be done to get the 66 million people who are eligible but still unvaccinated to get the shot.
by more than 20 percentage points after multiple institutions adopted vaccine requirements in recent months, while case numbers and deaths from the virus are down, Biden administration officials said on Wednesday.
Biden said in July federal workers needed to be vaccinated or get tested regularly. In September, he said federal workers needed to be vaccinated or face losing their jobs, and that employees at big companies needed to get jabs or be tested. "The vaccine requirements that we started rolling out in the summer are working," Biden said, noting that the Labor Department's completed rule on vaccination requirements for businesses would be coming out shortly.
"We’re down to 66 million, still an unacceptably high number, of unvaccinated people," he said. "We can't let up now." U.S. President Joe Biden waves as he boards Air Force One to depart O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 7, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hocksteinof the United States population has received at least one shot and 57.3% are fully vaccinated. Administration officials said Wednesday 77% of eligible Americans had received at least one shot.
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