Requiring vaccines is complicated in sectors like retail and agriculture, where employers risk losing workers in a tight labor market and vaccine enforcement could be expensive.

The infectious disease expert warned of a potential future variant that could “impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine.

“You were faster, you went higher, you were stronger because we all stood together — in solidarity,” the IOC president said.

“The local officials should have control here,” the Louisiana Republican said.

“We don’t need to be polarized about a virus that’s killing people,” Dr. Francis Collins said.

The administration has struggled for months to find a nominee to lead the agency despite its central role in fighting the ongoing pandemic.

State and local officials in these areas say that fears about the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, and the risk of death, are finally driving more people to seek out shots.

To squeeze as many of their priorities as possible in the budget resolution, lawmakers are discussing making some of the new health spending temporary.

The new program to “unlock New York City” will begin Aug. 16, with enforcement set to start Sept. 13, according to City Hall.

School districts view the mask mandates as a matter of life or death.