Fauci says a vaccine requirement should 'seriously' be considered for domestic flights.
, where the variant was first discovered, suggests that it spreads easier but may cause milder disease than previous variants.“When you make vaccination a requirement, that’s another incentive to get more people vaccinated,” Fauci said. “If you want to do that with domestic flights, I think that’s something that seriously should be considered.”
"The group we're really concerned about is the unvaccinated people because even if this virus is inherently less severe, just the volume of the number of cases that we're going to have could actually put a stress on the hospital system," he said earlier in the interview.
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