What you need to know about President Biden’s new Covid vaccine mandates - CNBC
"We're going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated coworkers," Biden said Thursday in announcing the plan. "We're going to reduce the spread of Covid-19 by increasing the share of the workforce that is vaccinated in businesses all across America."
"If you want to work with the federal government and do business with us, get vaccinated," Biden said. "If you want to do business with the federal government, vaccinate your workforce." The new rules will affect more than 17 million health workers at more than 50,000 hospitals and health-care facilities across the U.S.
To boost the pace of daily shots, which have slowed down after a spike in mid-August, the president ordered the Department of Labor to create a new rule requiring any company with more than 100 employees to mandate vaccines for their employees or weekly Covid tests for workers who cite religious or health reasons for not getting vaccinated. However, those reasons for opting out are likely to be more scrutinized by employers going forward.
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