Biden declares sweeping new vaccine mandate for 100M Americans
President Joe Biden is to announce the new vaccination requirements in a Thursday afternoon address from the White House. (Evan Vucci/AP file)
The rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans. And the roughly 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid also will have to be fully vaccinated.
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