White House Signals New COVID-19 Measures Coming for People Who Are Unvaccinated

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Ahead of President Joe Bidenโ€™s announcement Thursday about new COVID-19 measures, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that there may be new measures that will be imposed on unvaccinated people.

โ€œThere are six steps the presidentโ€™s announcing, there will be new components,โ€ Psaki told reporters on Wednesday. โ€œSome of that will be related to access to testing, some will be related to mandates, some will be related to how we ensure kids will be protected in schools.โ€

When asked about how the new steps would impact Americansโ€™ lives, Psaki said that โ€œit depends on if youโ€™re vaccinated or not.โ€

Psaki provided few details on what mandates could be imposed on unvaccinated Americans. On Tuesday, she told reporters on Air Force One that the federal government lacks the authority to mandate vaccines for everyone.

โ€œThere will be new components that sure, will of course impact people across the country, but weโ€™re also all working together to get the virus under control, to return to our normal lives,โ€ Psaki also said, without elaborating, on Wednesday.

Biden, who was scheduled to meet with his COVID-19 advisers on Wednesday, delivered a speech about six months ago saying the United States has โ€œmade real progressโ€ against the virus.

Since that date, about 142 million Americans have received COVID-19 vaccines and about 950,000 people are getting vaccinated each day, according to data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Data released daily by the CDCโ€™s COVID-19 tracker suggests that the United Statesโ€™ new cases and deaths may have hit a plateau or is on the decline. The seven day-average for cases as of Tuesday was 140,000 and deaths were 1,022, respectively, while as of Sept. 1, the seven-day average for cases was 156,000 and deaths were 1,141, respectively.

The presidentโ€™s speech on Thursday could make reference to a recent announcement from the heads of several federal health agencies that third doses of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, or booster shots, would be provided around Sept. 20. However, the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve the booster doses.

Already, Biden required all federal employees and contractors to get the COVID-19 vaccine or adhere to strict testing and social distancing protocols. He also ordered nursing homes to require their staff to get the vaccine to continue getting Medicare and Medicaid funding.

One of Bidenโ€™s top confidants, White House chief of staff Ron Klain, during aย CNN interviewย over the weekend, was reluctant to provide a specific date when the boosters would be made available to the public.

Byย Jack Phillips

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