(Prensa Latina) President Joe Biden will announce Thursday new protocols for Covid-19 vaccination of federal workers, urged for much more people to be immunized amid a threatening infection spike in the country.
According to The Hill, the US president is planning to detail efforts to get more citizens to get vaccinated, since in recent days he blamed those haven´t yet gotten immunized for the increased toll of coronavirus-infected people.
Biden said Tuesday his administration envisaged making the Covid-19 vaccine mandatory for workers.
According to local press, the White House will take a measure similar to what NY Mayor Bill de Blasio´s one, who will force New Yorkers to get vaccinated in mid-September or undergo weekly tests.
The United States could report in coming four to six weeks a rise of up to 200,000 cases per day due to the ultrafast spread of Delta variant, causing 83% of new infections in the country.
Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), warned the country is approaching a hard time with the possibility the forecasts are met while ‘vaccination hits a wall’.
Only half the US people is partially vaccinated, according to CDC data, and most of those who are not vaccinated are thinking of doing so.
During the July 4 celebration, Biden assured that the United States was coming back to life and was ‘closer than ever’ to declaring its independence from the virus.
However, reality less than a month later indicated that with new Covid-19 cases, planning to reopen schools and work centers are already in doubt.
The Biden administration hoped to immunize at least 70% of adult population before Independence Day, but it failed.
Be the first to comment