Biden Hurts Vaccine Case

President Biden says that the COVID-19 vaccines work. He ought to start acting like it.

This may seem a somewhat peculiar objection to register, given that Biden has proved so keen to impose a federal vaccination mandate that he is willing to risk breaking the law. And yet, to listen to the president talk about the vaccine is to wonder how convinced of its efficacy he truly is. “Based on available data from the summer,” Biden said last Thursday, “only one of out of every 160,000 fully vaccinated Americans was hospitalized for COVID-19 per day. These are the facts.” And, indeed they are — which, as Biden has submitted repeatedly, is an extremely good reason to go and get vaccinated. Oddly enough, it is not the unvaccinated about whom he seems primarily to be worried. Announcing his move, Biden complained briefly about the “pandemic politics” that “are making people sick, causing unvaccinated people to die,” and then moved on to what is really vexing him: the need to “protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers.”

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior editor at National Review and the host of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast.

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President Biden says that the COVID-19 vaccines work. He ought to start acting like it.

This may seem a somewhat peculiar objection to register, given that Biden has proved so keen to impose a federal vaccination mandate that he is willing to risk breaking the law. And yet, to listen to the president talk about the vaccine is to wonder how convinced of its efficacy he truly is. “Based on available data from the summer,” Biden said last Thursday, “only one of out of every 160,000 fully vaccinated Americans was hospitalized for COVID-19 per day. These are the facts.” And, indeed they are — which, as Biden has submitted repeatedly, is an extremely good reason to go and get vaccinated. Oddly enough, it is not the unvaccinated about whom he seems primarily to be worried. Announcing his move, Biden complained briefly about the “pandemic politics” that “are making people sick, causing unvaccinated people to die,” and then moved on to what is really vexing him: the need to “protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers.”