Fauci says U.S. should 'seriously' consider vaccine requirement for domestic flights amid Omicron surge

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Fauci says U.S. should 'seriously' consider vaccine requirement for domestic flights amid Omicron surge
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President Biden's chief medical adviser says it could be 'another incentive to get more people vaccinated.'

. From Friday to Monday, more than 5,400 flights in the U.S. were canceled and thousands more were delayed, with airlines citing staff shortages caused by COVID infections among pilots, crew and other airline workers out sick.dominant strain in the U.S."It has extraordinary capability of transmitting very efficiently from person to person," he said."...We really still need to be extremely careful getting people vaccinated, getting people boosted, making sure we wear masks.

Less than 62% of the U.S. population and 71% of those over the age of 12 are fully vaccinated, and only about a third of vaccinated people have received their booster dose, according to the

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