The White House’s impending vaccine requirements for federal workers and the CDC’s updated—albeit contentious—mask guidance reflect a new phase of the pandemic.
to be unvaccinated. The VA’s announcement came the same day the Justice Department publicly released an opinion determining that “federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccines, even if the vaccines have only been authorized for emergency use,” according to CNN—legal grounds that open the floodgates further for such policies.
The expected directive signals a new approach to the vaccination effort that has for months been dogged by resistance and misinformation. Biden has held out on the mandates at his disposal, in part to avoid politicizing the issue more than the right already has. The spread of the delta variant has raised the stakes, however, and apparently forced the White House to recalibrate. Still, Biden won’t go so far as to compel U.S.
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