NIH Director Francis Collins Calls for New COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, appears before a Senate hearing to discuss vaccines, in Washington, on Sept. 9, 2020. Greg Nash- Pool/Getty Images

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins said the United States should adopt more COVID-19 vaccine mandates and said he supports private entities requiring the shots.

Collins, when asked about mandates during a Sunday interview, said that “I think we ought to use every public health tool we can when people are dying.”