Biden SNAPS at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy after he’s confronted about push to get vaccinated to wear masks
JOE Biden clashed with a reporter who reminded the the president that he once said Americans don’t need to wear a mask if they are fully vaccinated.
The heated exchange with Fox News journalist Peter Doocy came just days after experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said vaccinated people will need to wear face coverings in parts of the US due to rising Covid cases.
The president hit back: “No I didn’t say that. I said if you’re fully vaccinated in an area where you do not have – well let me clarify that.”
Doocy told Biden: “In May, you made it sound like a vaccine was the ticket to losing the masks forever.”
The Democrat, who was flustered by this point, snapped: “That was true at the time.”
States could even start offering checks worth up to $100 to encourage reluctant Americans to get jabbed.
About four million people who are employed by the federal government are required to show proof of vaccination or wear masks and physically distance themselves from others in the workplace.
The reintroduction of the mask mandate comes as a appeared to suggest that vaccinated Americans may just be as contagious as the unvaccinated.
It’s reported that the Delta variant potentially spreads as easily or perhaps faster than Ebola, chickenpox or even the common cold.
The on Tuesday as boffins encouraged Americans to take up the jab.
Dr Rochelle Walensky said Americans "in areas with substantial and high transmissions" should wear masks indoors - whether or not they are vaccinated.
She confirmed this includes when people are inside schools.
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Back in May, they confirmed that people who had received both doses of the vaccine would not have to wear a mask or social distance.
However, even people who were fully jabbed had to continue planes and trains, at airports, on mass transit, and in medical environments like hospitals.