US plans to require Covid vaccine for foreign travellers

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was not having it when President Joe Biden tried to lecture him on implementing “the right” COVID-19 policies while the federal government is allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants, including those infected with the virus, into the United States.

At a Tuesday White House news conference, Biden said of the current COVID surge, “The escalation of cases is particularly concentrated in states with low vaccination rates.”

“Just two states, Florida and Texas, account for one-third of all new COVID-19 cases in the entire country,” the president said.

“I say to these governors, please help. If you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way of people who are trying to do the right thing. Use your power to save lives,” he added.

DeSantis fired right back at Biden’s COVID critique, directing the president’s attention to the southern border.

“I just want to say something quickly, you know, Joe Biden has taken to himself to try to single out Florida over COVID,” the governor said.

“This is a guy who ran for president saying he was going to, quote, ‘shut down the virus.’ And what has he done? He’s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border. You have hundreds of thousands of people pouring across every month,” he added.

DeSantis pointed out that people have been apprehended from over 100 different countries. The Biden administration then sends them all over the U.S.

“Do you think they’re being worried about COVID for that? Of course not,” DeSantis said. “So he’s facilitating, who knows what new variants are out there, but I can tell you, whatever variants around the world, they’re coming across that southern border, and so he’s not shutting down the virus, he’s helping to facilitate it in our country.”

“So why don’t you do your job?” he (DeSantis) asked. “Why don’t you get this border secure? And until you do that, I don’t want to hear a blip about COVID from you.”