US vaccination rules

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The Biden administration has ended most of the last remaining federal Covid-19 vaccine rules and this includes entry into the United States.

Their termination marks the latest display of how President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to treat Covid-19 as a routine, endemic illness.

“While I believe that these vaccine mandates had a tremendous beneficial impact, we are now at a point where we think that it makes a lot of sense to pull these requirements down,” said Dr Ashish Jha, White House Covid-19 co-ordinator.

More than 100 million people at one time were covered by the President’s sweeping mandates, which he announced on 9 September 2021, as the Delta variant of the virus was sickening more people than at any time up to that point in the pandemic.

Biden had ruled out such requirements before taking office that January, but came to embrace them to change the behaviour of what he viewed to be a stubborn slice of the public that refused to be inoculated, saying they jeopardised the lives of others and the nation’s economic recovery.

“We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us,” Biden said at the time.

More than 1.13 million people in the US have died of Covid-19 since the pandemic began more than three years ago.

“Covid continues to be a problem,” Dr Jha said. “But our healthcare system or public health resources are far more able to respond to the threat that Covid poses to our country and do so in a way that does not cause problems with access to care for Americans.”

He added: “Some of these emergency powers are just not necessary in the same way anymore.”

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