Walensky backtracks nationwide vaccine mandate comments amid messaging confusion

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky backtracked Friday after she said the Biden administration was entertaining a federal coronavirus vaccine mandate.

Walensky was not referring to a federal vaccine requirement when she said the administration was “looking into” whether to mandate it at the federal level, she said Friday evening.

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