Biden seeks mandatory vaculation of millions of Americans

Speaking at the White House, Biden criticised millions of Americans who have not yet been vaccinated, despite the availability of vaccines and the most contagious version of the coronary, Delta.

We've had patience, but our patience is shrinking. Your refusal has cost us all”, said Beden, noting that the overwhelming majority of severe infections are among the unexplored people.

Under a six - point strategy for the fight of the coronary, Beden set new rules for all employers with more than 100 workers to ask them to be vaccinated or tested every week for coronary testing.

This will affect more than 80 million people in the private sector, the White House praised. Companies can be fined unless they follow new rules.

Another element of the plan is mandatory vaccines for all federal employees and federal contractors.

Republicans immediately accused the democratic president of overstepping authority.

The Republican National Committee said it would sue the Beden administration to prevent the duties for vaccine.

“Like many Americans, I am pro vaccine and against the commandment”, said committee chairman Ronna McDaniel.

Many small businesses and workers have no money or legal resources to combat the unconstitutional actions of Biden and authoritarian decrees, but when its decree comes into force, the Republican National Committee will sue the administration to protect Americans and their freedoms”, McDaniel said.

Kathy McMorris Rodgers, Republican on the Energy and Trade Committee, which supervises health policy, said Biden is undermining confidence in safe and effective vaccines.

“It is using fears, controls and obligations”, Rodgers said.

This is not about freedom or personal choice”, Biden said, referring to some republics who oppose vaccines and masks.

It's about protecting yourself and the people you work with, the people you care about, the people you love. My job as president is to protect all Americans”, Biden said.

Its plan also requires the inoculation of about 17 million health care workers in objects receiving funds from the US government.

Teachers and staffs in specific educational programmes funded by the government will also be required to be vaccinated.

The president's plan will also use a national defence law to order producers to produce 280 million rapid tests for coronarys.

Moreover, the Benden administration plans to offer additional vaccines, starting this month, for fear that vaccine efficiency decreases over time or because of the more contagious Delta variant.

Despite the many free vaccines, about three quarters of Americans who are entitled to the vaccine have received at least one dose.

According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 62 percent of Americans are completely vaccinated.

Coronavirus has killed more than 654,000 people in the United States. Deaths and hospitalizations have increased significantly in recent months, due to the Delta version. /rel/