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Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Rugu Mino Volan.

It's Friday, September 10th.

This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

You might have heard that President Joe Biden outlined a new six-point plan yesterday for tackling coronavirus.

In it, there were two big new things

that Biden announced. One, on vaccinations, Biden is finally leveraging the unilateral power of the

federal government to expand mandates to some 100 million Americans. That would include all workers

at companies with over 100 employees, all federal employees and contractors,

anyone who works for a health care provider that receives Medicare or Medicaid reimbursements,

any employee at a school that receives money from Head Start and a few other programs.

And two on testing.

Biden is using federal authorities to search the production and distribution of rapid COVID tests,

including at-home tests. But Biden was also unsparing about the burdens that the unvaccinated

have handed the rest of us. Thousands more dead, overflowing hospitals, a rebounding economy

that now shows signs of retreat. Pandemic politics, as Biden called it, aren't simple. But now eight months into the Biden

administration, any new set of rules offered by the president does raise a question. Why didn't he do

this already? Some more COVID speech takeaways courtesy of Politico health care editor at large,

Joanne Kennan. Biden called up the vaccine resistant, those who oppose it on principle, not just

because they're hesitant about the new shot, for declaring that it's a matter of personal choice or freedom.

This is an infectious disease.

It doesn't just affect one person.

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