US government should consider vaccination requirement for domestic travel, Fauci says

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the US government should consider requiring people to be vaccinated to fly domestically.

The US government should consider requiring people to be vaccinated to fly domestically, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday.

"But if you're talking about requiring vaccination to get on a plane domestically, that is just another one of the requirements that I think is reasonable to consider," added Fauci, who is director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.Fauci did not say whether he had made this recommendation to President Biden but added that a vaccination requirement for air travel creates more incentive to get vaccinated in the first place.

"When you make vaccination a requirement, that's another incentive to get more people vaccinated. If you want to do that with domestic flights, I think that's something that seriously should be considered," he said.

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