Biden Announces Strict New COVID-19 Rules for Unvaccinated Federal Workers

Biden Announces Strict New COVID-19 Rules for Unvaccinated Federal Workers
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the Intelligence Community workforce and its leadership while on a tour at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Va., on July 27, 2021. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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The Biden administration on July 29 stated that federal workers and contractors will have to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or else wear masks, engage in social distancing, and submit to regular COVID-19 testing.

“Right now, too many people are dying or watching someone they love die and say if ‘I’d just got the vaccine,’” President Joe Biden said in the East Room of the White House. “This is an American tragedy. People are dying who don’t have to die.”

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
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