President Biden Monday cheered the full approval of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 by the Food and Drug Administration and urged American companies and government agencies to make the shot mandatory.
With his pandemic approval numbers flagging, Biden jump-started his plea for more Americans to get the lifesaving shot, armed with new ammunition to counter widespread anti-vaxxer propaganda.
“The moment you’ve been waiting for is here,” Biden said. “It’s time for you to go get your vaccination.”
Biden called on corporate America, schools and other public organizations to use the new decision to mandate vaccinations to keep workplaces safe and help end the stubborn pandemic.
He noted that he has already ordered the military and federal workers to get the shot.
“I’m calling on more companies to step up,” Biden said. “Do what I did: Require your employees to get vaccinated.”
The vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech now carries the strongest possible endorsement from the U.S. government, eliminating the argument by vaccine skeptics that it is somehow untested or experimental.
The Pentagon quickly announced it will press ahead with plans to require members of the military to get the vaccine within a matter of weeks.
New York City also announced public school teachers and other employees will be required to get the lifesaving jab.
The White House is anxious to use the new authorization to increase the pace of vaccinations, which it believes is the only way to keep a lid on the virulent delta variant of COVID-19 and any future strains.
Biden compared the COVID-19 vaccine to other shots that are widely required in American society, like the jabs that have effectively eliminated once-deadly diseases like polio, smallpox, mumps, measles and rubella.
More than 200 million Pfizer doses have been administered in the U.S. — and hundreds of millions more worldwide — since December.
U.S. vaccinations hit a peak at more than 3 million a day in April and dipped to just 500,000 a day amid widespread complacency about the pandemic.
With the delta variant spreading fast, more Americans are getting the vaccine, with more than 1 million doses a day given Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Biden noted that vaccinations are up the most in states that are getting hit the hardest by the delta variant, including Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama.
“All around the world peeps want these vaccines,” Biden said. “Here in America, they’re free and available to all.”
Officials believe vaccine mandates and the FDA approval will keep the pace of vaccinations high, especially with people returning to school and other workplaces in the fall.
Just over half of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated with one of the country’s three options, from Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson.
Moderna has also applied to the FDA for full approval of its vaccine. J&J said it hopes to do so later this year.
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No one has been waiting for this day slo joe. This is nothing more than an orchestrated stunt to allow you to ignore the real issues facing America, and they are many. What we are really waiting for, is for you to resign, be impeached, or drop dead, not necessarily in that order.
I’d love to see ALL three of those happen, ALL AT ONCE!
“The moment you’ve been waiting for is here,” Biden said. “It’s time for you to go get your vaccination.”
No—the moment we are all waiting for is when you people shut the hell up about COVID—can all of the confusion and misinformation you continually put out—stop infringing on our personal liberties and stop the power grabs.
If 1/10th the effort had been put into the Afghanistan nightmare that you people invest in the panicdemic, that may have had a much better outcome. COVID and the Taliban just have you completely vexed, don’t they, Joe? Maybe you should have gotten your Chinese buddies to implement a little biological warfare on the Taliban using COVID because you certainly couldn’t handle the situation.
You gloat about your vaccine all you want, but you have a major mess in Afghanistan that you created and you need to fix it.
Impeach Biden
Ahh, but DOING ANYTHING right on afganistan, DOES NOT GIVE THEM POWER over WE americans.. Ergo, Why would they put as much effort into Afgan, as they did the COVID SCAM DEMIC..
The vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech now carries the strongest possible endorsement from the U.S. government, eliminating the argument by vaccine skeptics that it is somehow untested or experimental.
A toe pick moment.
Political….
I wonder what symbol we will have to sew on our clothes if we are not vaccinated; the Nazi made the Jews sew yellow stars.
ONe wonders. NOW THEY ARE “LEgal”, does that now mean WE CAN SUE THEM FOR SIDE EFFECTS??? Hell, are they required to list those side effects??
” to counter widespread anti-vaxxer propaganda”. What propaganda is that? The propaganda that some people have gotten deathly ill from the vaccine and some people have died from the vaccine.
And it’s NOT propaganda, or a ‘Conspiracy theory”, when we LITERALY Have caught the CDC Lying about the # of deaths and other adverse effects, FROM the vaccines”, to be ANTI VAX!
I saw a Dr. Malone on war room this morning and he said the media is not telling the truth that the jab has not been approved the wording used is made so it sounds like it. Dr. Malone is the one who created the mNRA so he knows what he is talking about.
“The White House is anxious to use the new authorization to increase the pace of vaccinations, which it believes is the only way to keep a lid on the virulent delta variant of COVID-19 and any future strains.”
So far that house has been giving us terrible advice.
Here you go:
The American Communists are anxious to use the new FDA “Safe certification” as authorization to force injections, which it believes is the only way to keep total control of the population.
“YOU vill, take da shot.”