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Will A Federal Mandate Make The Difference For Unvaccinated Americans?

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🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Last week President Biden announced a six-pronged strategy to combat the newly surging pandemic — including a federal rule that all businesses with 100 or more employees must ensure their workers are vaccinated for COVID-19, or submit to weekly testing for the virus.

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0:00.0

Last week, President Biden addressed a particular part of the population.

0:04.6

My message to unvaccinated Americans is this.

0:08.8

What more is there to wait for?

0:12.1

What more do you need to see?

0:14.1

He said his patients was wearing thin.

0:16.4

We've made vaccinations free, safe and convenient.

0:21.3

The vaccine is FDA approval.

0:23.9

Over 200 million Americans have gotten at least one shot.

0:27.9

Biden announced that through the Labor Department's occupational safety and health administration,

0:33.0

that's OSHA, that the federal government would require employers with more than 100 employees,

0:38.9

either to ensure their workers get vaccinated or do weekly testing.

0:43.4

The new rule would impact about 80 million workers.

0:46.5

Some of the biggest companies are already requiring this.

0:49.3

United Airlines, Disney, Tyson's Food, and even Fox News.

0:56.0

As expected, Republicans are calling this an overreach.

0:59.3

He's saying he's losing patients with people.

1:01.7

At the end of the day, we don't live with a one person rule in this country.

1:07.0

Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, speaking last Friday.

1:10.0

Just think about what this mandate would do.

1:13.3

It's going to drive people out of work, at hospitals, out of all this stuff.

1:16.9

This is a very serious deadly virus, and we're all together in trying to get an increased level

1:24.2

of vaccination out in the population.

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