Biden to urge millions of federal workers to receive Covid vaccine

American President Joe Biden has announced that millions of federal workers will either need to show proof of having received the coronavirus vaccine or participate in regular testing and maintain a variety of restrictions. However, Biden will not order federal employees to be vaccinated and no federal employees will lose their jobs if they are not vaccinated.

It is believed that the new policy is a recognition by the Biden administration that workers need to be encouraged to be vaccinated, especially as the Covid variant is increasing new cases and hospitalizations.

"The pandemic we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Biden said on Wednesday. He urged the unvaccinated to "please, please, please, please" get a shot. A day earlier, he mused that "if those other 100 million people got vaccinated, we'd be in a very different world."