Public Attitudes

White House faces calls to embrace vaccine passports Health experts are calling on the Biden administration to do more to encourage and promote the use of vaccine mandates and passports. So far, the White House has stayed out of what they view as an Nathaniel Weixel TheHill

Health experts are calling on the Biden administration to do more to encourage and promote the use of vaccine mandates and passports.

So far, the White House has stayed out of what they view as an issue for private employers.

College vaccine mandates rile GOP states The red states’ moves potentially set up court fights over who has the power to police campus health just as schools prepare to reopen for in-person instruction. Ben Leonard POLITICO

Conservative state lawmakers are moving to block public and private universities from requiring returning students to have proof of Covid vaccinations or get the vaccine itself, in a push that could complicate President Joe Biden’s effort to get shots to young adults.

Covid is already deadlier this year than all of 2020. So why do many in U.S. think the problem’s over? In the global scramble for Covid-19 vaccines, high-income countries, predictably, have sought to secure stocks for their own populations first. Sam Meredith CNBC

As the U.S. pushes ahead with its reopening, easing mask mandates and lifting public health restrictions, much of the rest of the world is seeing an alarming surge in the number of Covid-19 infections and deaths.