A few days before Election Day and amid an ongoing pandemic, some social media have argued that if Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is elected, the COVID-19 vaccine would be mandatory.
“Biden said it would make the COVID vaccine mandatory,” reads on a Facebook post on October 17. “Trump said he would impose the vaccine. Questions?”, USA TODAY contacted the user to comment.
An October 9 Instagram post made a statement.
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the right to refuse a vaccine because they don’t like the current president,” reads in the message, shared through user Bye_throughe_big_pharma, who continues to recommend that Democrats should “impose vaccines so that parents don’t have the same right to decide for their own children. “
The publication has gained almost 7,000 likes since its release on October 9, and the comments are broadly consistent with the position of Bye_bye_big_pharma.
So (sic) terrifying! a comment read.
“Say no to vaccines, to Covid,” wrote another.
The poster responded to USA TODAY’s request for comment.
Fact-checking: the COVID-19 vaccine may not be in a position in weeks, nor would it be mandatory
Biden said that if elected, he would pay attention to the recommendation of experts and public aptitude professionals and that a vaccine mandate would depend on its effectiveness.
While on the road to the crusade in Wilmington, Delaware, in September, Biden said he was more “optimistic than ever in the strength of science” to create a vaccine. However, he added that confidence in the vaccine would depend on whether Trump provides “honest answers. ” “on its safety, efficacy and distribution.
In statements to reporters on the occasion, Biden said it would also depend on the experts on who would have the first access to the vaccine, but did not mention the prescription of the vaccine, according to video images of the occasion in C-SPAN.
In the mayor’s office of Biden on October 15 in Philadelphia with ABC News, a voter asked the former vice president whether he would require all Americans to get a vaccine if approved until the end of the year.
In response, Biden said: “If the framework of science says that’s what’s in a position to be done and that they, this has been tested and have passed the 3 stages, yes, it would take it and inspire others to take it. “
He added that the mandatory use would have the kind of positive effect it would have and “the state of nature of the vaccine at launch and how it is distributed. “
Biden also said he would apply COVID-19 vaccines in the same way that the measles vaccine is handled.
“You can’t come to school until you’ve been vaccinated against measles. You can’t, ” said Biden, but you can’t say, everyone has to do this. “He added that it would inspire local and state leaders to put mandates into effect.
Biden’s plan to fight coronavirus also mentions prescribing vaccines.
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During the first vice presidential debate on October 7, Harris asked if she would be vaccinated if the COVID-19 vaccine passed through the Trump administration.
“If public fitness professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if doctors tell us we accept it, I’ll be the first to do so. Absolutely,” the vice presidential candidate said in a full transcript of the USA TODAY event.
However, he clarified if the president “tells us that we take it, I do not take it. “
Biden and Harris’ deference to clinical experience refers to Trump’s repeated attempts to push for a vaccine in time for the upcoming election.
In September, Trump went so far as to contradict director robert Redfield’s director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a vaccine would probably not be obtained until 2021, and before this month, in a video after his discharge from the hospital, Trump again said a vaccine would be in a “momentarily” position. But doctors and scientists have refuted this claim.
Trump’s words go against what public fitness experts see as a realistic timeline for vaccine applicants still in clinical trials.
Redfield said that even once a vaccine is approved, only limited quantities will be available in the first place.
Dr. Moncef Slaoui, leading advisor to Operation Warp Speed, the US effort, is a leading advisor to the U. S. effort. But it’s not the first time To drive vaccine development, he told ABC News that between 20 and 40 million doses of a vaccine, if legal until the end of the year, would be distributed to several people.
“From now on, all members of this population can be vaccinated in December, but corporations will continue to manufacture and produce doses of vaccines, and in January we expect to have between 60 and 80 million doses of those two vaccines,” Slaoui said. .
At a press conference in the White House on September 16, Trump’s management defined his vaccine distribution plan once authorized, saying the army “aligned. “No one at the press conference said vaccines would be mandatory.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most sensible infectious disease officer in the United States, also said in the past that the government would not make any long-term COVID-19 vaccine mandatory.
“There is no need to demand and verify to force a vaccine. We’ve never done that,” Fauci said at a video convention hosted by George Washington University. “It may require certain other people’s equipment, such as fitness workers, however, for the general population, it cannot. “
We are comparing claims that Biden and democrats would impose COVID-19 vaccines, and Trump would never do so, as PARTIALLY FALSE, based on our research. The Biden COVID-19 plan does not mention a vaccination mandate. Biden said he would, they largely count on his effectiveness and “when it will come out and how it will be distributed. “Biden and Fauci also claimed that a president cannot serve a term. It is true that the Trump administration’s vaccine distribution plan also does not mention forcing others to get vaccinated.
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