Column: Here's why Biden's vaccine mandate is right -- and should stand up to legal challenges
Displaying the same frustration and anger that millions of Americans feel about people placing themselves, their loved ones and their communities at risk by refusing vaccinations for COVID-19, President Biden on Thursday brought the hammer down.
In a wide-ranging series of orders, Biden said his administration will mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require vaccines or stringent testing for all employees. He's imposing even stricter requirements for federal workers, federal contractors, educational programs and healthcare organizations that receive federal funding.
Roughly 100 million Americans may be covered by the new rules.
A community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members.
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan in 1905
As we've been writing, mandates are the most effective way to bring under the vaccination umbrella the millions of eligible Americans who have been holding out. That's especially true of those who do so on partisan or ideological grounds.
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