What the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 Mandate Means for the Pandemic
. It also says that the more than 17 million employees at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement funding need to be fully vaccinated against the virus.
Biden also encouraged entertainment venues like sports arenas, large concert halls, and other places where large groups of people gather to require that their patrons be vaccinated or show proof of a negative test for entry. With these new plans in place, it’s only natural to wonder what kind of impact the new mandate will have on the pandemic. Infectious disease doctors weigh in.“The whole idea of this—and I hope it’s realized—is to get a sufficient number of people vaccinated so that we can finally get ahead of this virus and curtail its spread over most of the country,” says William Schaffner, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Still, Dr. Schaffner says, “the idea is that we may be able to vaccinate many people who are currently unvaccinated.”
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