On September 9, 2021 President Biden issues two Executive Orders mandating COVID-19 vaccines for federal workers and contractors and announced new requirements for large employers and health care providers that he said would affect around 100 million workers, more than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce.” [1, 2, 7] At the time 80 million Americans were unvaccinated.
The federal worker deadline is by November 22, 2021, and the federal contractor deadline was December 8, 2021
OSHA is directed to mandate that private sector employers with 100 or more employees to require their employees receive a COVID-19 vaccine, also the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the requirement for all health care workers at facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid to be fully vaccinated. [3, 4, 5]
Even though an August 24, 2021 pre-print study with CDC-affiliated authors showed that the vaccinated had high viral loads (break through cases)…vaccination was not going to stop transmission. [6]