Biden HHS: ‘It’s Absolutely Our Business’ to Know Who’s Vaccinated; Biden Begs Americans to Get Vaccinated

By Washington Examiner. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra argued that the federal government is entitled to know who in the United States has been vaccinated, responding to anger from GOP House members who say the Biden administration is infringing on personal liberty.

“Perhaps we should point out that the federal government has had to spend trillions of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic, so it is absolutely the government’s business. It is taxpayers’ business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy,” Becerra said on CNN Thursday.

Becerra rejected arguments from the Right that the Biden administration is trying to override the public’s freedom to choose not to be vaccinated. His remarks come just days after President Joe Biden announced that his administration would shift its focus from getting as many people vaccinated as possible to dealing with persistent vaccine hesitancy in certain parts of the country with exceptionally low vaccination rates, primarily in states in the South and the Midwest. Biden had pledged to “go to community by community … and oftentimes door to door, literally knocking on doors,” eliciting anger from Republicans.

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“Please Get Vaccinated”: Biden Delivers Remarks on COVID-19 Response

By Yahoo News. President Biden delivered remarks on Tuesday on his administration’s ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic, making a personal appeal for Americans to get vaccinated after the country fell short of his goal of 70% of American adults receiving at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine by July 4.

“The best thing you can do to protect yourself, and your family, and the people you care about the most, is get vaccinated,” Mr. Biden said. “Please get vaccinated.”

The president announced that more than 182 million Americans have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. He also said that by the end of the week, 160 million Americans will have received both doses.

The president urged Americans to get vaccinated, particularly because it is effective against the Delta variant of the virus, which he said is “more easily transmissible” and “potentially more dangerous.”

“If you’re vaccinated, you’re protected. If you’re unvaccinated, you’re not,” Mr. Biden, reiterating that getting vaccinated “is a patriotic thing to do.” (Read more from “Please Get Vaccinated”: Biden Delivers Remarks on COVID-19 Response” HERE)

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