White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator: It’s ‘Time to Impose Vaccine Requirements’

White House press secretary Jen Psaki, COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci brief reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on April 13, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeffrey Zients announced Monday that it’s “time to impose some requirements on COVID-19 vaccines.

“Last week the president called on states and local governments to use funding they have received, including from the American Rescue Plan, to give $100 to anyone who gets fully vaccinated,” he said during a briefing, adding, “if financial incentives like these help us get more shots in arms, we should use them.”