{"id":39017,"date":"2021-08-23T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39017"},"modified":"2021-08-23T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T00:41:27","slug":"biden-threw-his-support-behind-company-vaccine-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39017","title":{"rendered":"Biden threw his support behind company vaccine requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biden called on companies to mandate COVID-19 vaccines on Monday, voicing strong support for such requirements following the FDA\u2019s full approval for Pfizer\u2019s vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I\u2019m calling on more companies in the private sector to step up the vaccine requirements that\u2019ll reach millions more people,\u201d Biden said during an address. \u201cIf you\u2019re a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state or local leader, who has been waiting for full FDA approval to require vaccinations, I call on you now to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president requested that business and government leaders follow in his footsteps after he previously ordered federal employees and onsite contractors to get vaccinated or endure regular COVID-19 testing. The administration has also directed troops, nursing home staff and workers at federal medical centers to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo what I did last month: Require your employees to get vaccinated or face strict requirements,\u201d he said in his plea to leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt only makes sense to require a vaccine to stop the spread of COVID-19,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden called on companies to mandate&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39018,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39017\/revisions\/39018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}