{"id":83571,"date":"2021-12-28T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/?p=83571"},"modified":"2021-12-28T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:00:05","slug":"fauci-again-suggests-vax-mandate-for-domestic-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/transport\/fauci-again-suggests-vax-mandate-for-domestic-air-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci again suggests vax mandate for domestic air travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the omicron variant triggering a new spike in U.S. Covid-19 cases, White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci is once again expressing his support for a federal vaccine mandate for domestic commercial air travel.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking Monday on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; show, Fauci said such a mandate could lead more people to get vaccinated. He likened requiring vaccination for domestic air travel to universities and and companies requiring students and employees to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxpWO5bFaEs?start=473\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you make vaccination a requirement, that&#8217;s another incentive to get more people vaccinated,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you want to do that with domestic flights, I think that&#8217;s something that seriously should be considered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Currently 72.6% of U.S. adults are fully vaccinated. The vaccination rate among individuals 5 and older is 65.6%, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>Covid case counts have spiked to a seven-day U.S average of more than 200,000 per day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fauci declined to say whether he would formally recommend an air travel vaccine mandate to President Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because if the president doesn&#8217;t do it, I don&#8217;t want to make it look he&#8217;s going against it,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fauci first spoke publicly in favor of a domestic air travel vaccine mandate in September.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/Travel-News\/Airline-News\/Fauci-again-suggests-vax-mandate-domestic-air-travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the omicron variant triggering a new spike in U.S. Covid-19 cases, White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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