In view of the delta variant, US politicians are also wrestling over how to deal with unvaccinated people - including compulsory vaccination for a large professional group.
Washington, DC - Another Corona summit is coming up in Germany - an eagerly debated topic in advance is how to deal with unvaccinated people in the future. In the USA, too, a heated discussion about vaccination refusals has flared up. With coronavirus rising, especially in the southern states, the United States is faced with the question of how to get residents to vaccinate. It is a delicate situation for US President Joe Biden. If he was able to exceed the ambitious vaccination goals in the first hundred days of his presidency, the campaign is now being slowed down.
At the same time, the delta mutation of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly - and vaccination is only progressing slowly, especially in republican areas.
As a result, Biden was already heavily targeting Republican governors.
Almost half of the population is currently fully vaccinated, around 60 percent at least once.
"We should never have come this far," said Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health research agency, in view of the number of cases recently to the US broadcaster ABC.
The authorities are now reporting an average of around 100,000 new infections per day.
In June, before the delta variant caught on, it was only around 10,000 a day at times.
On average, more than 450 people die every day after a corona infection, according to data from the CDC health authority.
Arkansas governor, Republican Asa Hutchinson, reported on Twitter on Monday: “We currently only have eight ICU beds available in the state.
Vaccinations reduce hospital stays. ”And in view of the latest corona wave, the US state of Texas has asked all hospitals to postpone medical interventions that are not absolutely necessary.
Vaccination dispute now also in the USA - Anthony Fauci for teacher vaccination
Against this background, US policy is struggling to find solutions.
For soldiers of the armed forces, a vaccination should apply from September 15 at the latest.
That came out on Monday from a letter from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
If the vaccinations were to get regular approval from the responsible US agency FDA beforehand, the mandatory vaccination could be introduced earlier, said Austin.
Emergency FDA approval is currently still in force for the corona vaccines.
More than 1.3 million soldiers serve in the US armed forces, of which around 1.05 million are already fully vaccinated, according to data from the Pentagon.
Biden still has to agree to the arrangement - but this is purely a matter of form.
Washington State is also serious. Democratic Governor Jay Inslee announced that state and health care workers must be fully vaccinated by October 18. Otherwise there is a risk of losing one's job.
Top virologist Anthony Fauci also recently intervened - and called for mandatory vaccination for teachers in schools. “Have as many teachers vaccinated as possible; Everyone who is in the vicinity of a child, in the normally protected environment of a school - if they can be vaccinated, they should be vaccinated, ”demanded the scientist in an interview with the US news website
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.. A letter from the white man According to Haus, 90 percent of educators and school employees have already been vaccinated. But the delta variant is also increasingly affecting children and young people - and experts are concerned about the possible land-time consequences of these age cohorts.
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