Larger contractors on the fence about company COVID vaccination policies got a shove on September 9, when President Biden announced that business owners with 100 or more people on the payroll will have to ensure that their workforce either gets vaccinated or provides weekly negative tests.
Biden’s announcement is at the center of the administration’s most recent efforts to combat COVID. The Delta variant’s increased transmissibility, and a hardened but sizable anti-vaccination minority in the U.S. population, have driven a spike in cases that rivals pre-vaccine numbers in some areas.