Pres. Biden: 'If some governors aren't willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it.' 'If you aren't going to help, at least get out of the way.'
President Joe Biden announced that 110 million vaccines have been shipped worldwide in an effort to halt the rise of any future variants of the virus.The president took aim Tuesday at local officials, including the governors of Florida and Texas, over laws that prevented public health measures in the wake of surging"I say to these governors: please help, but you aren't going to help at least get out of the way," President Joe Biden said.
DeSantis has stuck to a long-time promise not to impose a mask mandate in Florida. Both states have also moved toIn response to a question from a reporter, Biden criticized the measures as"bad" policy. This comes as the two states see surges in cases and hospitalizations. "In fact, the most extreme of these measures is in Texas where ... a professor or teacher can be fined if they ask a student if they are vaccinated or if they ask unvaccinated students to wear masks. And I think the fundamental question we have is: What are we doing here?"
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