Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Sunday defended the administration’s new Covid vaccine requirements, calling them “an appropriate legal measure“ that fit in with traditional safety requirements in schools and workplaces.
“We have to put this in context. There are requirements that we put in workplaces and in schools every day to make sure that workplaces and schools are safe,” Murthy said on ABC’s “This Week.”
President Joe Biden on Thursday issued broad new federal guidelines that, among other things, will use Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements to compel employers with more than 100 workers to mandate vaccination among their employees. Biden assailed the “25 percent” of Americans that have declined to be vaccinated. “That 25 percent can cause a lot of damage, and they are,” the president said.
Critics accused the president of exceeding his legal authority, a notion that Murthy rejected.
“These are focused on areas where the federal government has legal authority to act,” he said, adding: “We know these kind of requirements actually work to improve our vaccination rates.“
Murthy also said he believed the administration’s new policy would withstand legal challenges. “Certainly this wouldn’t have been put forward if the president and the administration didn’t believe that it was an appropriate legal measure to take,” he said.
When asked by host George Stephanopoulos about possible defiance of the administration‘s new requirements, Murthy said it was important not to lose sight of our shared goals as a country.
“What we cannot allow is for this pandemic to turn us on each other,” he said. “Our enemy is the virus; it is not one another.“
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/12/surgeon-general-vaccine-policies-legal-511457
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