Biden, a convert to mandates, making economic case for shots

Published October 7, 2021 4:00 AM

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Il. (AP) — President Joe Biden is wielding his weapon of last resort in the nation’s fight against COVID-19. Biden is promoting vaccination requirements across the country in an effort to force the roughly 67 million unvaccinated American adults to roll up their sleeves. It’s a tactic Biden never wanted to employ. But it’s one that Biden feels he has been forced into by a stubborn slice of the public. Biden is delivering that message in Illinois, where he’s visiting a suburban Chicago construction site run by a company that’s imposing a new vaccinate-or-test requirement.

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