CNN’s Dr. Wen Urges Biden to Consider Vaccine Mandates: ‘This Is Not Just About the Individual’

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WEN: “There is this narrative that the Biden administration and many others have been putting out, which is once you’re vaccinated, you’re fine. And so the natural conclusion from that is why would you care if others around you are vaccinated or not? If you’re protected, then why not let everybody else just do whatever they want? The fact, though, is that the unvaccinated also affect the vaccinated. If you are a vaccinated person, but you’re living among a lot of unvaccinated individuals as Elizabeth was just showing in these clusters, your chance of having a breakthrough infection increases. Your chance of infecting others around you who are unvaccinated also increases. By the way, the more unvaccinated people there are, the longer this pandemic is going to be here. We have this Delta variant that is so contagious, and that actually increases the threshold of how many people have to be vaccinated in order to reach herd immunity. We have other variants that make it harder for us to end this pandemic. And so my point is this is not just about the individual, this is about our society. And I hope that the Biden administration gets on board with that kind of societal approach to health and well-being.”